The incident tonight (Thursday) near the Nabi Musa base in the Jordan Valley, in which two IDF officers from the Egoz unit were killed due to a mistake in identifying another officer, is unfortunately not the first incident of its kind in the army over the years. Fatalities and operational errors during operational activities, along with training accidents and bullet emissions in recent years.
The fall of General David Marcus
Major General David Marcus, a Jewish colonel in the American army, joined the IDF during the War of Independence as part of the Mahal (Jewish fighters from abroad), and he was also one of the leaders of the Burma breakthrough to Jerusalem. In June 1948, Marcus toured the Abu Ghosh area , But it was replaced by another person.When he returned Marcus was asked who he was, and he replied in English, a language that the new sentry did not understand.
Shot by the sentry: the late General David Marcus, Photo: Wikipedia
The disaster of the Armored Battalions in the Holy War
On November 2, 1956, during Operation Sinai, one of the most difficult bilateral shooting incidents in IDF history took place. .
A tank company of the 37th Brigade on its way to Abu Aguila was not identified due to coordination problems and encountered an ambush by the 82nd Battalion. They thought it was an Egyptian force that withdrew from the compound and opened fire.
The company, which included ten tanks, was destroyed except for one tank.
25 Israeli soldiers were killed in the incident.
Fighters in Operation Kadesh (photographed, no connection to the article), Photo: Avraham Vered in the camp / Courtesy of the IDF Archives at the Ministry of Defense
The fall of Israeli hero Shlomo Arman in the canal
On October 8, 1973, on the third day of the Yom Kippur War, reservists fired a shell at a group of armored soldiers approaching them on foot.
Earlier, an Egyptian force attacked the fighters, so the IDF force suspected that it was a scam, even though the force in front of it identified itself as Israeli.
The First Lebanon War: Battle of KMT
On June 9, 1982, in the first week of the First Lebanon War, a complex armored battle took place near the village of Ein a-Tina, in which Israeli forces attacked each other as a result of misidentification.
The two forces, sent to attack a village, arrived from different points at night and did not recognize each other.
They opened fire on each other, and only after the courage of a soldier who jumped on the other side's tank and shouted at him that they were Israelis was the shooting stopped.
Five officers were killed in the battle.
Fighters in Lebanon (those photographed have nothing to do with the news), Photo: Moshe Shai
The bombing disaster of the Air Force
One of the most severe bilateral combat incidents in the IDF occurred during the First Lebanon War in the tragic event of the 931st Battalion bombing.
The pilots identified the vehicle as a Syrian force, and attacked it.
Twenty-four soldiers were killed and one hundred and eight were wounded in the erroneous attack.
This is the most serious "fire of our forces" incident in IDF history.
Tze'elim Disaster I
The Tze'elim A disaster occurred on July 17, 1990 at the Tze'elim base in the Negev.
There was a reserve fighter exercise that also included firing live ammunition.
However, the twin and control officers did not follow the exercise in real time, and thus a mistake was made at the point where the shooting should have taken place.
As a result, the fire landed on the force, IDF fighters from the 9204th Battalion of the Oded Brigade. (9th Brigade). Five soldiers were killed in the incident.
Tze'elim Disaster II
The disaster, known as the Tze'elim II disaster, is the name of a serious operational accident in which five fighters of the General Staff patrol were killed on November 5, 1992, during an exercise at the Tze'elim base in the Negev where they trained to assassinate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Levin, watched all the top IDF officials including Chief of Staff Ehud Barak and his deputy Amnon Lipkin-Shahak.
A monument in memory of the victims of the Tze'elim II disaster in Tel Aviv, Photo: Roni Shitzer
The Battle of Wadi Saluki
On May 24, 1993, at the end of a night ambush in Wadi Salouki in the security zone, one of the forces in the ambush identified the other force as an enemy force and opened fire on it.
Four soldiers were killed in the shooting.
The error occurred when the forces began to fold, so the alert force did not recognize the second force's fold and opened fire at it.
Five soldiers were killed in the shooting.
Cherry unit disaster
On August 26, 2000, fighters from the Duvdevan unit under the command of the unit's commander, Miki Edelstein, carried out an operation to capture the commander of Hamas' military wing in Judea and Samaria, Muhammad Abu Hanoud, who was responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israelis. A-Shamailiya near Nablus, but after the terrorists opened fire on them, the unit's snipers mistakenly identified their comrades as terrorists and shot them dead. Three fighters were killed in the attack. Abu Noud escaped, and was later killed by a military helicopter.
The fall of Sgt. Maayan Levy
In June 2003, during a company exercise by the Nahal Brigade, the operator of the Negev machine gun lost control of the machine gun. And killed the platoon commander, Sgt. Levy, who was lying next to the machine gun.
The fall of Sergeant Shahar Strug
In March 2018, Sergeant Shahar Sturg from the Cherry unit was killed due to the ejection of a pistol bullet by a member of the unit.
The incident occurred due to illicit use of the gun.
An investigative committee that investigated the incident discovered a culture of misuse of weapons in the unit and drew conclusions against a number of officers in it.
The fighter who killed Strugg was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The late Shahar Strug, Photo: IDF Spokesman
The fall of First Sergeant Yonatan Granot
In February 2021, a bullet fired by a Ruger rifle was fired at Sgt. Yonatan Granot, a Nahal fighter, at the Tevetz camp in the Jordan Valley.
Granot, a resident of Kibbutz Einat, was fatally wounded and died of his wounds at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
The investigation determined that his death was the result of a gun crime, because the soldier who fired the weapon did not know him and was not authorized to use it.
A number of officers were dismissed and reprimanded.
The late Yonatan Granot, Photo: Courtesy of the family
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