Yahalom unit increasingly focuses on underground warfare, with Hamas and Hizbullah tunnel threats a regular risk
Yahalom is a special combat engineering unit of the Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. The name “Yahalom” is an abbreviation of “Special Operations Engineering Unit.”
The unit's role includes special sabotage missions, demolition and
explosion of buildings, sabotage of enemy infrastructure, handling of
explosives, preparing explosive devices and bombs, neutralizing enemy
explosive devices, clearing complex minefields, locating and destroying
terror tunnels. At times, the unit uses robots and many remote
controlled devices, without endangering human life.
"We're constantly active, conducting security operations on the
borders and handling explosives and unconventional threats that are
being developed by the enemy," unit commander Col. Yaron Biton said.
In recent years Yahalom soldiers have increasingly focused
their efforts on underground combat and developing new methods to
neutralize terror tunnels that penetrate deep into Israeli territory
from Gaza and Lebanon.
No comments:
Post a Comment