Video: UAV Footage Of Firefight & Hand To Hand With Grenades
What you’re looking at are thermal images taken from an Israeli unmanned drone flying high above on the night of July 21. Two figures catch the eye of the drone operator sitting in a comfortable office far away. The figures are identified as Palestinian gunmen approaching the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. The two gunmen move slowly among the bushes.
An Israeli unit is dispatched on a mission of interception, and you can see clearly that both sides are moving very slowly heading toward a collision.
The Palestinian gunman realizes that the Israeli forces are a few feet away and opens fire. A gun battle erupts. The black dots flying everywhere are the hot rifle shells. At this point one Palestinian gunman lies dead.
The explosion you see on the top right side is a grenade that was thrown by the second Palestinian gunman. The grenade explodes and doesn’t injure any Israeli soldier.
One of the Israeli officers is roughly five feet from the surviving gunman and he decides to charge; but he makes a crucial mistake and doesn’t remember to change his empty cartridge.
This is where low tech meets high tech.
With all the armored gear both sides have — night vision goggles, automatic rifles, grenades, and a sophisticated remote controlled drone in the air — what the Israeli officer is left with is wrestling the Palestinian to the ground with his bare hands.
You can see the officer standing up and running towards the Palestinian, but with no shells flying, he reaches the Palestinian and they are left tied up in a bundle, each fighting for his life.
The Palestinian pulls out another grenade and the Israeli manages to turn the Palestinian in the direction of the explosion, which kills the Palestinian, and leaves the Israeli officer only slightly wounded.
This piece of video is just a small and short testimony to the reality both sides face in this conflict, which occurs daily on the Israeli and Palestinian Gaza border.
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Excellent find
December 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pmAwesome
December 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pmFuckin wild.
The muslims are sooooo out classed it’s pathetic.
Don’t fuck with Isreal.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pmAll I can say: Holy Shit!
December 6th, 2007 at 8:34 pmHoly. Fucking. Shit.
Get that man a beer.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Yea, holy shit!
December 7th, 2007 at 10:49 amNotice that another Israeli soldier runs to the fight towards the end, but can’t fire for fear of hurting his buddy …
December 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pmGood on the Israeli, but he forgot his training.
Hand to hand is the last thing you want happening.
December 8th, 2007 at 9:37 am