The boy's rescue last night from a minefield in the Golan Heights came at the end of lengthy talks conducted with him by professionals from the police negotiation team.
The circumstances of the entry of the 17-year-old, who left an educational institution in the north, into the minefield, are still being investigated.
The incident began around seven o'clock in the evening, when it was learned that the boy was in a minefield near Moshav Mitzer in the south of the Golan Heights.
The members of the police negotiation unit, eighty professionals from the police and volunteers arrived at the scene.
For about four hours, they talked to him from a distance, together with educational figures who know the boy, calmed him down and explained to him that soldiers would enter the minefield to rescue him.
At the end of those four hours, when the boy felt safe and agreed to cooperate, soldiers from the engineering corps entered the minefield on their way to the boy.
The police clarified that this is a very sensitive situation, given the fear that any movement of the boy could have ended in disaster.
Only after they gained the boy's trust and reassured him, was the rescue operation possible.
The rescuers together with the boy after he was rescued (photo: official website, IDF spokesman)
Rescue from a minefield requires a high level of skill, so the fighters of the Yael patrol from the Yalam unit, and the fighters of the protection company (mines, detection and identification, falling) from the engineering formation in the 210th division were called to the scene
. Sergeant Y. of the Yael patrol, who entered the minefield, said Wow! Because the unit's soldiers are on constant alert. "Around seven in the evening they called us and we immediately left for the Golan in a helicopter with Unit 669." Y. entered the minefield with another fighter, when the operation was commanded by an officer from their unit who was standing outside the minefield. "This was the entry of twenty A meter inside the minefield until we reached the boy.
It is a marked field and there is a prescription for it.
These are mines that the IDF laid about fifty years ago, but we always take into account that mines may move, especially after so many years."
The advance was made by a soldier who scanned the ground with a mine detector, and marked the march route clear of mines.
Behind him stepped a soldier who is defined as an "anchor", connecting the soldier who leads with the mine detector, and the officer in command of the event, and he sticks the marking tape that lays the mine-free route into the ground.
"After about an hour, we reached the boy, explained to him the way out, put 'sabotage sandals' on his feet and left on the route we marked at the entrance," Y' explained.
"I just explained to him what we were doing, a professional explanation only. The exit was very quick and lasted a few minutes."
Y. pointed out that entering for the purpose of rescuing a civilian from a minefield is rare and is done as a last resort, after it became clear that he could not be rescued in safer ways.
"This is our job and we are ready for it," he said.
The security forces rescue the boy from the minefield (photo: Walla! system, according to section 27'a)
The Ministry of Welfare and Social Security stated that "the boy arrived at the facility by court order. He escaped from the facility last night around seven o'clock in the evening and entered a minefield from which he refused to leave. The manager of the facility and his professional team immediately called the police and the military forces and were in contact with the boy all the time in an attempt to convince him to allow The security forces rescued him safely. The boy complied and the security forces rescued him safely. Due to the obligation of confidentiality, we cannot provide any further details."
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