The IDF soldier who was very seriously wounded in a Thursday Arab sniper attack in southern Gaza has undergone what his parents call a "miraculous" recovery. "Thanks to everyone's prayers," his mother said this morning, "he woke up yesterday, and recognized us, and talked to us, and we are truly grateful for everyone who prayed for him."
The soldier, Yossi Posh of Kibbutz Ein HaNetziv in the Jordan Valley, had been engaged in an ongoing IDF operation to locate and destroy arms-smuggling tunnels operated by Palestinian Authority terrorists along the Egypt-Israel border. After a sniper bullet hit him in the head, he was flown to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, where he underwent a complex operation. His condition has improved dramatically from "critical" to "light-to-moderate." The family, Lubavitcher emissaries in the Kibbutz, asks that the public continue to pray for Yosef Yitzchak ben [son of] Ziva.
"There is no doubt that Egypt could prevent the smuggling of arms from [its side of] Rafiah into the Gaza Strip," a senior security official told correspondent Haggai Huberman, "if it would just take more concrete measures such as establishing checkpoints at the entrances to Rafiah from the direction of Sinai. We're not just talking about a few guns, but rather about thousands of guns and bullets, hundreds of anti-tank rocket launchers, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives. These can only be brought to Rafiah by cars, and checkpoints could easily stop them."
The soldier, Yossi Posh of Kibbutz Ein HaNetziv in the Jordan Valley, had been engaged in an ongoing IDF operation to locate and destroy arms-smuggling tunnels operated by Palestinian Authority terrorists along the Egypt-Israel border. After a sniper bullet hit him in the head, he was flown to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva, where he underwent a complex operation. His condition has improved dramatically from "critical" to "light-to-moderate." The family, Lubavitcher emissaries in the Kibbutz, asks that the public continue to pray for Yosef Yitzchak ben [son of] Ziva.
"There is no doubt that Egypt could prevent the smuggling of arms from [its side of] Rafiah into the Gaza Strip," a senior security official told correspondent Haggai Huberman, "if it would just take more concrete measures such as establishing checkpoints at the entrances to Rafiah from the direction of Sinai. We're not just talking about a few guns, but rather about thousands of guns and bullets, hundreds of anti-tank rocket launchers, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives. These can only be brought to Rafiah by cars, and checkpoints could easily stop them."