On video: IDF unit 636 activity (photo: IDF spokesperson)
This coming Thursday, the recruitment of the first men and women fighters for the first dedicated battalion in the IDF for the defense of the seam line - "Panther". The establishment of the battalion, which will be opened according to the guidance of the Chief of Staff following the lessons learned in the IDF after the series of deadly attacks that led to the opening of Operation "Breakwater", It is expected to end in July, when it will become operational.
Most of the activity of the battalion's forces will be ambushes for the purpose of capturing Shebaim.
To meet the mission, the battalion will receive new means of observation, "tactical deception" items designed for camouflage in open, built-up and wooded areas, drones, collection means and fast off-road vehicles.
The first soldiers who will be mobilized this week will go through the training and the certification process at the border patrol base.
At the same time, in a process led by the head of the Central Command Staff, Brigadier General Roy Sheetrit, outposts with high service conditions, new roads, a wall and a warning fence are being built along the Ephraim spatial division.
They will carry out ambushes for the purpose of seizing Shebaim. Enlisting in the BKOM, archive (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Already at the beginning of "Breaking the Waves", in March, the commander of the Central Command, General Yehuda Fox, presented to Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi the data about the Palestinians who cross the seam line illegally. Due to the many years of neglect of the fence and roads in the area, the data was particularly difficult: 34,085 Palestinians cross the fence a week, according to the identification of the observations and means of collection in the various areas.
Following this, the IDF will gradually increase the seam line with regular and reserve fighting forces, and will begin to thicken the various areas with patrols.
During the process he put up a barbed wire fence and began to repair the old fence.
A month later, the scope of the Shabaim dropped to 15,000 Palestinians a week, and a month later to 750 a week. In May, the number had already dropped to about 300 Palestinians crossing the seam line a week, in areas where there is still no warning fence and enough patrol forces. Since the beginning of the thickening The forces in the seam line, the scope varies between 250 and 400 shebam per week.
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The goal - to close the seam line.
Gaps in the fence at Yosh (Photo: Amir Bohbot)
Security officials clarified that methods have been developed in the IDF that will characterize the seam line and, depending on the operational employment, additional efforts will be combined to reduce the scope of the Shabaim from hundreds to a single digit number.
According to the same source, in Israel there are more than 10,000 Shebaim who live permanently in Israel or return to the Yosh once every six months to a year for short visits and return to Israel.
The source also emphasized that the dramatic process of building the wall in the Hatmar Menasha area is supposed to cut off Umm al-Fahm from Jenin and thus create a new security reality in such a way that it will prevent the passage of criminal elements, the smuggling of weapons, ammunition and drugs, and block the escape of criminals from Israel to the U.S. That.
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