Hi,
It was a welcome not to be forgotten. Leaving our cellphones behind us we got to a bus that left us in the middle of a field that was just been harvested. We then got up to the Tiyulit that will take to next point closer to the border with Lebanon with high spirit, calling up Rovait songs
The Tiyulit started climbing up Manara cliff along the new road IDF bulldozer had broken through during the last year of in the north. As we got higher, we could see more and more of the northern part of Hula Valley (called sometimes Hasbani valley) the same area we were guarding on March this year.
We were turning right into armored vehicle parking lot we got stuck in a traffic gem. We tried up to the border as other trucks tried to go down. The traffic laws direct the vehicle going down to give priority to those going up, so insist on going up first.
It was until the soldiers shouted one word. Ilwe repeated it quietly when we heard llthe person before us says it. That made us all stop, sit down, and let go down quickly as possible.
We spent the rest of ride quiet. Each thinking on what might happen to him over there in Lebanon and what welcome we exceptin in there.
Take Care
Gad
P.S. only about a month later, as we were about to be released home, our company commander told they had died out of their injuries 😔. But I did not find them in the IDF website of the fallen soldiers.
The new road IDF engineering corps had break through to allow vehicles to climb up Naftali mountains hidden from Hezbollah anti-tank missiles
Our squadron military equipment packed and ready to go, while the tractor is harvesting the field of Hula Valley