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IDF Reconnaissance Unit Hunts Hizbullah
(Ynet News) Elisha Ben Kimon - The television in the living room of the house on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon was still on. On a table lay three loaded Kalashnikov rifles. "When you find a regular weapons cache, the weapons are usually unloaded and packed away," said Maj. D., 24, commander of the Golan reconnaissance company. "When you find a weapon with a round in the chamber, you understand terrorists were here just moments earlier." "Inside the closets, we found Iranian-made explosive devices still wrapped in their original plastic packaging, ready for use, along with anti-tank missiles. In another incident, we found a huge anti-aircraft machine gun meant for firing at helicopters. I had never seen a weapon like that in my life." One of the main threats was explosive drones. "We assigned several fighters whose only job was to look at the sky and detect drones, and in one case we also managed to bring them down. Beyond that, correct positioning behind cover and movement through concealed terrain with large spacing make it very difficult for the enemy to identify us." Cpl. Gur Aryeh described the operational atmosphere in Lebanon. "You enter with a certain fear, but alongside it there is a sense of power from the size of the mission. A lot of people told us they had not seen fighters with this kind of fire in them. We would say, 'Let's capture another house and another house.' We are a foot unit that walks dozens of km. with bags and equipment on our backs. That was the peak for every fighter. That is what we trained for, and we didn't think about the cost." Gur Aryeh was wounded in the Bint Jbeil area and evacuated to a hospital. "You see that everyone from the unit who was wounded only wants to return and go back inside," he said.