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Goldwasser and Regev's company commander recalls: "We lost contact, and announced the Hannibal procedure"
Today, 15 years ago, the Second Lebanon War began, with the abduction attack of reservists Ehud Gladwasser and Eldad Regev, following which Israel went into battle.
Giora Barry, who was the lieutenant colonel of the two, recounted the moments of horror: "We were in a sense of tied hands"
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Monday, 12 July 2021, 10:27 Updated: 11:43
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Eldad Regev (Photo: AP)
Fifteen years have passed since the Second Lebanon War - which began today in 2006 with the abduction of reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
In that incident Hezbollah militants attacked two army vehicles, killing three soldiers, seriously wounding three soldiers and kidnapped two. Who was the commander of the company of two men, Giora Barry, told the opening day of the war.
"That morning, killing two Warriors from the unit, and the driver of the Spatial Division who was a part of us.
Regev and Goldwasser were both from Givati, we were on the line all month, "he said in an interview with FM103." It was a battle day that began with the shelling of shrapnel and anti-tank missiles.
This is the opening shot of that day of battle, which turned into the Second Lebanon War. "
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He added that "at some point we realized we had a problem contacting the patrol forces, and we went out to locate them from the outpost while he was under shelling. Afterwards, 'Hannibal' announced, we did not get to see Regev and Goldwasser."
"We started the war with very few forces"
Asked if it would have been possible to act differently in that incident, Barry replied: "At that specific point in time we would not have acted differently, because a few days before a lot of forces were taken off the line. So we started the war very thin in terms of force on the ground."
Barry added that "as soldiers trained to strive for contact, we saw that we had to go backwards, it was very close to the abduction of Gilad Shalit. We kept going backwards, and it was a feeling of tied hands."
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