IDF Soldiers Narrowly Escape Lynching

Last night, the IDF launched a dramatic rescue operation to extract two soldiers who accidentally strayed into a Palestinian neighborhood in north Jerusalem, and found themselves in the midst of a massive riot. Five soldiers were injured amid the rescue operation.

The incident began at around 10:50pm, when the vehicle carrying both soldiers entered the Palestinian neighborhood of Kalandia in north Jerusalem, ostensibly due to an error made while following directions on the Waza app.

From the Jerusalem Post:

“We don’t yet fully understand how it got there. The soldiers became surrounded in a very big riot, with many rocks thrown at their vehicle. They continued driving, and then Molotov cocktails were thrown at them, setting the vehicle on fire,” the source said.

At that stage, the soldiers escaped their vehicle and split up.

IDF Central Command dispatched large numbers of forces to Kalandia to rescue the soldiers. One maintained cell phone contact with the army throughout the incident, and was rescued within 30 minutes as he hid in a yard. The second soldier was rescued shortly before midnight.

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Neither of the two soldiers were harmed in the incident, though five soldiers were injured amid the rescue operation – four lightly and one moderately.