TEL AVIV, September 10, 2009 (WAFA)- The Israeli commander of Nahal Brigade, Col. Moti Baruch, specifically instructs his soldiers, deployed around Gaza Strip, that if kidnappers abduct a soldier, they should open fire, though this could put the Israeli soldier among the kidnappers at risk. Baruch also makes sure the soldiers train to carry out this order, daily Haaretz said.
Nahal, who have been stationed in the area for two months, are responsible for security along most of the security wall around Gaza Strip and along the northern part of the Israel-Egypt border. They are expected to remain in the sector for a few more months.
Baruch told Haaretz that 'the commanders in the sector may say something else, but what I stress to the brigade's combat soldiers is, first of all, to prevent injury to civilians, infiltration of a community and sniping at farmers. At the same time we talk about the seriousness of an attempted abduction. We know the other side is motivated to try.'
Baruch tolled his soldiers the outcome of an attempted kidnapping must be 'unequivocal' - preventing it. 'That you do in briefings and training. At every level, beginning with the individual soldier. But it is a system that has to know how to operate in such a situation. The message is that no soldier is to be captured, and that is an unambiguous message.'
Baruch point view the soldiers primary consideration is to hit the kidnapers. In the end, an incident like this must be seen above all as one where there is an enemy, even before the kidnapped soldier. There is an enemy who must be hit.'
Baruch sees no moral problem. 'In such actions, of course, you take a risk, you risk your life and that of your comrades, so, of course, in an abduction you might endanger the abducted soldier, but not only him. You are not just in the midst of an abduction, but also in the midst of making contact with the enemy.'
Before being deployed for active duty along the security wall, the
