The IDF's Eye-in-the-Sky over Gaza

(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - An all-female team operates the Artillery Corps' Skylark drones in northern Gaza, which broadcast to Gaza Division command centers. "We follow suspicious vehicles arriving at the homes of Hamas operatives and monitor observation points and enemy command centers," explained Capt. Toval Tzadok. "We provide a lot of visual information which becomes part of the intelligence puzzle" and can have the drone in the air within minutes, said one of the female fighters in the unit. One member of the team is Sgt. Ariella Lock, a soldier who made aliyah from Cleveland, OH, so she could enlist in the IDF and serve in combat.


2016-10-07 00:00:00

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