by Israel Hayom Staff
IDF's Southern Brigade commander Col. Dado Bar-Kalifa reveals deadly clash between Israeli troops and terrorists near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel prevented the intercepted cell from unleashing some 60 terrorists in southern Israeli community.
A Hamas terror tunnel
discovered near the Israel-Gaza Strip border [Archive]
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The Israel Defense Forces was able to thwart a
major Hamas terrorist attack in the southern town of Sderot last
summer, Southern Brigade commander Col. Dado Bar-Kalifa revealed Monday.
Speaking of Operation Protective Edge with
bereaved families at a Hanukkah candlelighting ceremony, Bar-Kalifa said
the military had indication that a clash between IDF soldiers and Hamas
terrorists emerging out of a tunnel dug near Kibbutz Nir Am had
effectively prevented a terrorist attack in Sderot.
Four soldiers, including Lt. Col. Dolev Kedar,
38, commander of the Gefen Battalion of the IDF's Bahad 1 officers'
training base, were killed in the July 22, 2014 clash.
"While I cannot go into details, I can tell
you that the Nir Am tunnel attack was mistakenly named, before we
learned of the enemy's plans to reach Sderot," Bar-Kalifa said.
The terrorists killed in the clash "planned to lead 60
terrorists to the heart of an Israeli community, where they planned to
embark on a killing spree and abduct soldiers and civilians," he said.
Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=30263
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