Hi,
We are called up for a line of routine security measures, as most lines are (just like the one we had in South Mount Hebron), but in fact, we are in a defense fight against Hezbollah.
It is hard to get your mind set for this kind of fighting. We are trained and practiced on attack techniques and drills. How to cross the border and hit the enemy on its own side.
But now we we have to sit on our side of the border when the settlements around us are empty from most of their citizens. We, as engineering corps soldiers, do not have much to do on the distances this fighting is taking place. Those are distances for artillery, ⁵tanks, and IAF aircraft. While we are sitting as ducks waiting to get hit.
We need to defend the border line. Keep an eye on it, but with a distance. On ordinary routine security measures line, before the war, we would have driving and moving on the border road itself. But now we are not allowed to reach it, if it is not for a specific activity, and only at night.
This defense fighting also requires us to spend many hours of the day inside protective areas, for high-trajectory weapon, UAV or anti-tank missiles all aimed on where we are.
Each day comes with larger amount of those, giving you the feeling it is no longer a slippery slope, bu already war, but none wish to call it this way.
Take Care
Gad
Daily alerts on Qiryat Shmona, largest number per a day since October 7th (Source: rotter.net)
A UAV alert, probably aimed at Kfar Blum, you can strsch a line of its flying route (Source: rotter.net)
Looking on the border fence through a night vision decice during one of the activities in this defense fight