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Female IDF Tank Crews Ran Down Hamas Terrorists on Oct. 7
(Times of Israel) In an interview with Israel's Channel 12, IDF soldiers who were part of a company of all-women tank operators in the Caracal mixed-gender light infantry battalion said that on the morning of Oct. 7, they left their base on the Egyptian border and drove north as fast as they could in tanks and an armored Humvee. As they approached Kibbutz Holit, Michal, an armored crew commander, said: "We started firing bunker busters at the terrorists that were up close, and then mortar shells at those further away. I could see the hits, I saw them fall down." Another commander, also called Michal, said that at Kibbutz Holit, "We saw terrorists everywhere, and I told the driver - just run them down." Col. Shemer Raviv said the female armored crews battled terrorists for 17 hours straight on that day. "When the tanks arrived, they broke up the battles....The terrorists understood they could either run or they would die. And the girls in those tanks, the warriors, with three tanks at that point in the attack, they fought in a most impressive way....Thanks to their actions in that area, we prevented the attack from moving further south." A commander identified as Tamar said, "You keep saying 'heroines' and 'historic.'...I don't feel like a hero. I feel like I'm a soldier that was given a job, and I did my job. I think anyone would have done that." Hagar, an officer, said, "You think about the civilians trapped in their homes and the people that needed us. You understand that there was no room for fear."