IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says that amid the expanded ground operation in Gaza, the military was working to bring home the hostages held in the Strip.
“We all doing everything to bring the hostages home. It is a top priority,” he says.
Hagari also said that a new group of surveillance soldiers was being drafted into the military, where they would perform this “important job” for the defense of Israel.
A number of them were killed or kidnapped on October 7.
IDF surveillance soldiers, referred to in Hebrew as tatzpitaniyot, belong to the Combat Intelligence Corps and operate along the country’s borders, as well as throughout the West Bank.
The surveillance soldiers are referred to by many as “the eyes of the army” as they provide real-time intelligence information to soldiers in the field, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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