A new threat

8th July, 2004

Somebody called the police of Kiryat-Gat and warned of an impending attack of Palestinian militants on one of the two settlements that my battery is protecting - Adora and Telem.

The battery commander decided to set an ambush in the eastern part, just outside of Adora. A hummer would patrol the south-western part of Adora and tempt the militants to go straight to the ambush.

While training prior to the mission, Telem's patrol announced on the radio that they've discovered a hole in the fence. 3 soldiers from Adora and the battery commander jumped in a jeep and drove to Telem (500 meters of distance) as reinforcements. The rest of us stayed in Adora.

When they checked the hole, it was false alarm - the hole was there all along.

Meanwhile, me, my commander and another soldier - we set an ambush. It was like hell, lying on spiky bushes while all your body hurts. Thank God it was only 2 hours!

During this day there were also 3 automatic fence alerts that we had to check. Nothing special. Probably birds again.