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They fought alongside them in the last minutes of their lives.

Since then they have accompanied them all their lives

"He had dust and blood on his face," recalled Maoz Major Roi Rosner of the Kfir Brigade, who fell in the battle with cast lead. "Only then did the snipers realize that they had hit our force," says Major A. And Liron.

The warriors who were in battle remember their comrades and tell of the moments of pain

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• Memorial Day for the victims of the Israeli military and the victims of hostilities

Sapir Levy

Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 10 p.m.

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In the video: Memorial Day for IDF Martyrs 5741 - 43 casualties were added here to the number of casualties (Photo: Reuven Castro, Niv Aharonson, Ministry of Defense, GPO and Reuters)

Roi Rosner met his wife Sharon during his military service, through a joint company.

The couple found out that they live three blocks apart.

After a friendship period of about five and a half years, they got married and went on a honeymoon in Thailand.

Upon their return from vacation, Roy took on the role of commander of the company that assists the Carob Regiment in the Kfir Brigade.

"Roi was married to me and the company at the time - only about ten months," said his wife Sharon.

On January 8, 2009, Major Rosner was killed during Operation Cast Lead during an operation in Gaza.

About nine years earlier, Sgt. Roi Even-Filsteiner, Sgt. Niv Yaakovi and Sgt. Liron Sharvit shoulder to shoulder in the Cherry unit.

They were veteran and experienced warriors.

A tragic incident during an operation to stop the terrorist Mahmoud Abu Hanod, who was defined as a wanted man in Judea and Samaria, led to a bilateral shooting that resulted in their deaths in action on August 26, 2000. The

soldiers who fought alongside their comrades in battle Moments and in the days and years after.

A small hole of sadness in the heart, which will never be refilled.

The last minutes of Major Roi Rosner's life are engraved on the heart board of his unit member Lt. Col. Maoz Schwartz.

The same goes for Major E. who served with Roi, Niv and Liron in Cherry, when the unit was hit by the same disaster. Maoz and E. carry their memory every day. We went back with them to the stories of the warriors, their friends, who fought alongside them in their last moments.

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"I will not forget that the fighters shout 'Hear Israel' and Roi shouts to the whole company 'louder'."

Major Roy Rosner (Photo: courtesy of the family)

Roi Rosner died at the age of 27. He was born in Holon in 1981 to Tikva and Oded, brother of Yaniv.

Lt. Col. Maoz Schwartz, who currently serves as a 7007th Battalion Commander in the 16th Brigade, served with Roy as a brigade commander in the brigade. Roi's story of the fall, which he also wrote about in a letter to the family.

When Operation Cast Lead began, Maoz in general was jumped while he was in school, where he left on behalf of the army between his duties as a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander. "He came when I was there for more than a year," says Maoz.

"We were on good terms, not very close friends, but we walked together. When I finished the role, the next time I saw Roy was in Operation Cast Lead," says Maoz.

"The story of his fall begins at 11:00 PM. We were in the assembly areas in Kissufim. Everyone is painted and ready for battle. "Hear Israel 'and Roi shouts to the whole company' louder. 'The whole company roared together' Hear Israel 'and then there was silence."

Roi said to me, "You know Maoz, these are moments that the company is waiting for them to come in and fight."

Lt. Col. Maoz Schwartz during Cast Lead (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

As a battalion commander, Maoz was asked by the commander of the Ilan Battalion to report to the border fence to make sure that the entire battalion had finished crossing. "I will not forget the faces of the soldiers passing me.

Roy was among them too.

I greeted everyone.

I reported to Ilan when the battalion had finished passing.

At one point the battalion stopped and I was close to Roy.

He was very happy from the entrance, was in the clouds.

As if waiting for it.

Roi said to me, "You know Maoz, these are moments when a battalion commander is waiting for them to come in and fight, it is a great privilege to be a

battalion

commander in moments like this."

Roi's company went into the depths of the Gaza Strip. From a stronghold to speed up the entrance so that the soldiers are not exposed to daylight.

"I remember seeing Roy, standing all upright near one of the houses in the Strip, smiling from ear to ear," says Maoz.

"I go up to him and tell him 'take cover fast because it's really late'. Just the second I tell him that, I pass the corner of that house and then we get a heavy fire from one of the nearby houses. At that moment four RPG missiles were fired at us - "One hit one house, the other hit Roi, and two more missiles hit the battery behind me. The missiles are also accompanied by machine gun fire fired at us. At that second, out of the corner of my eye, I see Roi falling."

IDF soldiers enter Gaza during Cast Lead (Photo: AP, Sebastian Scheiner)

Roy fell at a point that was exposed to gunfire.

"Yuri, who was Roi's fighter, was two meters away from me, he jumps under fire and drags Roi to a shelter behind the building," says Maoz. "Where are we being shot at? Adam and I are going to a tree trunk that was there, taking shelter - he showed me where the terrorists were and we started firing at them."

In those moments Maoz got in touch with Roi's lieutenant and told him that Roi was injured and that he should take command.

He then asked for reinforcements for the force and a medic.

"I approach Roi, he is lying on the floor. I bend down, kneel, he was very quiet but conscious," Maoz recalled, "he had dust and blood on his face, with my fingers I cleaned his face and eyes of blood. Yuri made him a point. "Pressing, in retrospect it was ineffective because his injury was internal, systemic. These are moments I will never forget," says Maoz, "Roi looks at me and says to me 'Dude, I'm going. I'm cumming.' I grabbed him and said to him, 'Roi "You are not going. You are not cumming. I will make sure to get you out of here."

The company medic crossed the area under fire to treat Roy.

"At the same time, I advanced tanks, told them where the terrorists' house shot at us and they destroyed the entire structure," Maoz continues. "The battalion eliminated nine terrorists in this battle, all who were there.

We also operated a combat helicopter to identify and shoot more terrorists.

We rescued Roy out on the basis of a tank that assisted and he went up in evacuation Musk to the hospital.

But Roy did not survive the road.

He died on the way to the hospital. "

Ilan, the battalion commander, decided not to tell the soldiers that Roi had been killed.

"Sometime during the night, we were ordered to leave the Gaza Strip for another operation," says Maoz. "The battalion commander took all the helpers, gathered them to him and told them that Roi had been killed.

Their next sentence was 'When do you come in again?'.

The next day, when we re-entered the Strip, there were quarrels between the soldiers in the company - everyone wanted to come in and argued among themselves, because there was no room for everyone.

After two days the end of the campaign was announced.

Only then could we go out and comfort Roy's parents and tell them the story.

I remember the clarity, the peace of mind he had, the look between us.

In battle, it is not always possible to separate from a human being.

But his last seconds were etched in my head.

Something that stood out very much for Roy - he was a commander in pleasant ways.

Not every commander is a commander in a pleasant way.

That's how he was killed. "

"After two days, the end of the campaign was announced. Only then could we go out and comfort Roy's parents and tell them the story."

Lt. Col. Maoz Schwartz (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

"This bereavement accompanied me all my service"

Major E., served in 2000 as a fighter in the Duvdevan unit together with Sgt. Roi Even-Filsteiner, Sgt. Niv Yaakovi and Sgt. Liron Sharvit.

"Roi was a very close friend of mine. I lived in Petah Tikva and he was in Hod Hasharon. His mother would take me home every time. Really a second mother to me. Roi was an introverted quiet guy and we were very good friends," says E., "I was in very good contact with Liron, we would talk quite a bit and meet quite a bit. This bereavement accompanied me all my service. Niv was a model before he came to the army, we would laugh about it. He's the guy of the bunch, the charismatic, such a guy from an advertisement, our 'Don Juan'. My friend. We were an adjoining room in the party. "

"A quiet introverted guy."

Sgt. Roi Even-Filsteiner (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The unit was given the task of capturing a senior West Bank wanted man and commander of the military wing of the Izz a-Din al-Qassem Brigades, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud.

A Hamas man who led suicide bombings that claimed the lives of dozens of Israelis.

The time was set for August 26, 2000. The fighters arrived in the village of Asira a-Shamliya in the Nablus district, where, according to information, he was hiding.

"We arrived at the village at ten o'clock in the evening. It was the first incident, we arrived relatively early," says E. "Our force encountered two 'assistants' of the wanted person who helped him and we released them. It was our second problem. Suddenly he himself leaves the house, gives a bunch of shots at us and starts to run away. At that point we settle on the roofs. My quintet had to close a certain compound. We were the late Roi, the late Niv and the late Liron, another fighter and I.

They heard the shots and, on their own, went up another floor. "

"We would laugh at it being the guy of the bunch."

Sgt. Niv Yaakovi (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

"Our snipers knew they were not supposed to detect any of our forces on the roof and in fact identified people with weapons without knowing that they were our fighters - and then they shot them," E. continues, "the wanted man managed to escape towards Nablus. Our snipers realized they were shooting at their friends "After they made a round of contact and they did not answer. Only then do the snipers realize that they have hit our force."

"We would talk quite a bit and meet quite a bit."

Sgt. Liron Sharvit (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The period before the second intifada was intense for the unit in terms of operational activity.

"On the day of the preparation before the operation, I remember sitting with Roy, he was with me on the same team," says E., "We sat together on the day he fell. We talked about what each person's role was in the operation. And also about the concerns. I was assigned to function as a rescue team. "Up if something happens. At the event I chased after the wanted man, so luckily I did not see my friends after the sniper fire. Niv and Liron were in a parallel team. This was the first time I lost friends in battle."

The day after the incident, at seven in the morning, the fighters boarded the hike.

"The soldiers from the unit cried and it was impossible to contact the families," E. recalled. "At six in the morning, my father heard about it on the radio on the way to work. It was a time when there were not so many cell phones. The first funeral was for Liron, Nir and then Roi, because the uncle His did not have time to come from abroad.

We could not speak that day.

There was a lot of media noise about it, Ilana Dayan came to interview us at the base.

In the end three fighters were killed in a professional mishap.

Going to talk to the bereaved families - that's what saved me.

For me, that is the struggle. "

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