Al-Shujaiya..an account that Israel could not close | Programs

10 years after the battle In Al-Shujaiya neighborhood East of the city GazaIsrael returned to fight a new battle in the neighborhood that had previously robbed it of 70 soldiers and prisoners who never returned. Shaul Aron.

On July 8, 2014, Israeli forces entered the Shujaiya neighborhood after breaching the separation fence east of Gaza City, but the road was never easy, as losses began to accumulate among the soldiers a few hours after the incursion.

After 14 days, a force was lured from… Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades -The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitationAn Israeli force ambushed a boat, killing 14 of its members and capturing soldier Shaul Aaron.

On the morning of this operation, Israel launched violent air strikes on the neighborhood, killing more than 70 Palestinians, half of whom were women and children. However, the Qassam Brigades soon attacked the Nahal Oz military site in Gaza cover Through one of the tunnels, I killed 10 soldiers.

This war ended with the killing of 70 Israeli soldiers and the wounding of dozens of others, including the commander of the Golani Brigade, Ghassan Alyan, who emerged from the war with a permanent scar on his face. He then left his military position and joined an administrative job in West Bank.

After 9 years of this war, Israel returned to Shuja’iya again, where it began its incursion during the first days of the ground war it launched in response to Operation “Al-Aqsa flood“.

In the first days of the incursion into the eastern part of Gaza City, Israel lost 10 soldiers, including a colonel, officers and soldiers, within one day in Shujaiya alone until Wednesday evening.

Al-Qassam published scenes of its fighters clashing with occupation soldiers and vehicles in Shuja’iya, while the Israelis published what they said was zero-distance fighting without any resistance fighters appearing.

While Shuja’iya remains the subject of renewed violent fighting between the resistance and the occupation, Israeli soldiers who fought in this place say that their view of the war has completely changed because of what they experienced there.

One of these soldiers said that it was the first time he had fought a war like this, stressing that he had experienced “a new description of the meaning of fear.” Another said that they realized inside Shujaiya that they were not “Superman” as they thought, as he put it.

A third soldier said that they were young men who did not know what fighting meant, and that he later realized that war was not the right option and that he should not rush into it.