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IDF Spokesman on Reinforcing Police Enforcement: "Not Our Most Effective Mission"

Brigadier General Zilberman stated that about a thousand soldiers help police enforce corona regulations across the country. military

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Amir Bohbot

Thursday, 01 October 2020, 18:00

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IDF Spokesman Brigadier General Hedi Zilberman said today (Thursday) that stepping up police activity in enforcing regulations through soldiers is not necessarily the best way to utilize manpower for the benefit of the fight in Corona. "From what we hear from the soldiers, I can say that this is a task to be highly effective." He added, "We're doing everything with the police force to exhaust the better way."

the words of the IDF spokesman arrive background of public criticism and an police to open an investigation against two women Who shouted at a soldier and a policewoman during a closure enforcement mission in Jerusalem.

Following this, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz ordered that the soldiers be moved out of the capital and other points of friction.

"I would have been much happier to invest these soldiers in other missions and not in this mission, to assist the state in other things," Zilberman said when asked if he had examined the need for soldiers to reinforce police missions.

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However he clarified that "we do not have such a situation that we check whether the police have reached the limit of their capacity. We get a quota of soldiers, do the police the coordination and explain to them what we know to do under government definitions."

"These soldiers were added a few weeks ago when the morbidity increased," the IDF spokesman added. "They are actually helping police officers without authority over civilians.

This is not one of our more effective missions of extracting soldiers in this matter, but the police believe in this mission.

I will not treat police matters as I would not be happy if the police spokesman were talking about the IDF.

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Alongside the continued increase in morbidity nationwide, there are 1,016 army soldiers diagnosed with Corona. 300 of them are recovering Ashkelon village and resort village in Givat Olga began today absorb more troops. Others are staying in their homes. At the same time, more than 13 thousand soldiers in isolation.

Consequently, It was decided in the IDF to expand the activities of the military laboratory for corona testing, and to add many more hundreds of tests a day.

Today, about a thousand tests are performed in the laboratory every day.

As part of the military assistance to the national effort to fight the virus, Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi decided to establish two corona wards with the Ministry of Health in the basement of Rambam Hospital in Haifa, for the benefit of treating dozens of moderately ill civilians.

For the purpose of the mission, the head of the Technology and Logistics Division, General Yitzhak Turgeman, assigned a military medical staff that includes doctors, paramedics, nurses and paramedics.

In order to meet the target, it was decided to offer paramedics who will soon be released to extend their military service to a special standard.

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