Although rodents are herbivores that feed on grains and are not fond of people’s noses and ears, mice did so with two Israeli soldiers who were sleeping in a tent in one of the Israeli occupation army camps.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the rats ate parts of one soldier’s ear and devoured the other’s nose, but surprisingly, they did not feel the bites until they woke up, and the soldiers were terrified when they found blood covering the faces of the two soldiers.
The rats biting the Israeli soldiers sparked a great deal of interaction on social media, with comments and tweets, some of them by Israelis, mocking and ridiculing what the two soldiers were subjected to. Some of these comments were monitored in the episode (2024/8/21) of the program “Networks.”
Regarding the Arabs’ comments, Shami tweeted, “This is a small and light part of the collective punishment that will come sooner rather than later. They will not escape punishment. The rats… the predatory beasts.”
Mockingly, Mohammed wrote, “Can someone reassure us about the rats? Did something happen to them? Poisoning or any skin diseases?”
As Saber Effendi said, “History will witness that the mice of Palestine bit the ears of the invincible army, thus recording a historic score and a heated duel by winning the title of the first incident of biting and denigrating an army in history.”
As for the Israelis’ comments, Uri Erlichman wrote, “Rats have been biting soldiers on army bases for at least a decade, and even now our soldiers are still being bitten… What kind of failure is this?”
“I’m just imagining, were the soldiers dreaming that they were being bitten in the nose and ear and didn’t wake up right away… what nonsense?” Clarocho’s account read.
It is reported that the two Israeli soldiers were bitten by rats at the “Amiad” military base in the Upper Galilee region, and were transferred to Ziv Hospital in Safed.
But they remained at the base for more than 8 hours, before the military took them to the hospital, where they received a rabies vaccine.
21/8/2024–|Last update: 8/21/202407:20 PM (Makkah Time)