An now some good news from the front in Gaza: A top Israeli colonel was killed in an ambush by Gaza's defenders. The same ambush got nine more of his troops. The Israelis seem to be covering up their own war losses but they can't hide everything.
During the Iraq War, for the US military to lose nine enlisted troops and a colonel in a single ambush would have been considered a very bad day by the Americans
@SocialistStan On the tank just to the left of center is what appears to be a somewhat darkened Ukrainian flag. Yet the tank right of center has a full size tank turret combined with a rear armored door. The only tank in the world with that feature is the Israeli-made Merkava, which uniquely among tanks is front-engined. That allows it to double as an armored personnel carrier (APC). No dedicated APC has a turret that big.
Thus (barring an edited photo) we either have someone flying a Ukrainian flag in Gaza presumably for solidarity with Ukraine, or a Merkava tank sent to Ukraine, no idea which. I have not heard of any Merkavas being sent to Ukraine and I follow that war rather closely. Israel refused to sell any Iron Dome missile defense systems to Ukraine, where they would have done well against those slow-flying propeller powered bomb drones. Thus it is unlikely any Merkavas have reached Ukraine either, please correct me if any have.
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