From IDF chief hails commanders who died in Gaza ambush as ‘an expression of our spirit’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets wounded troops at Sheba Hospital, December 13, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
Commenting on a deadly ambush in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood yesterday that killed nine soldiers, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says “the commanders who fell in battle are an expression of our spirit.”
“Yesterday we experienced a difficult incident, but it is an incident in which one force found itself in distress and many forces and senior commanders went into the fire, into the danger — commanders at the front — because this is what we teach in the IDF,” Halevi says at Hanukkah candle-lighting with wounded troops at Sheba Hospital.
