Just a note on communication, at 1:06 the soldier shouts in Hebrew "Terrorist killed". I don't know if he is shouting it to someone in particular but that may be some indication that the rest of his team is nearby.
I was wondering what the IDF soldier was yelling. I thought maybe he was giving whoever a chance to surrender. Guess not. He had no obligation to beg a terrorist to give up. They could have tried to do so on their own. My Hebrew is almost non-existent, so thanks for the translation.
It sounds like there are people possibly shooting into the room from the other side too? It seems that all the shooting wasn't at him from inside the room, as when they're shooting at him you can see the impact, so I think they had this terrorist pinned from two side. In that context, bumrushing the terrorist makes a lot more sense. Regardless, this was definitely a brave soldier.
I think he is shouting "מפנה לבד" = "mefaneh levad" = "clearing on my own". It could be "מחבל לבד" = "meHabel levad" = "terrorist on his own" but not "מחבל נהרג" = "meHabel neherag" = "terrorist killed".
It makes me happy to pay five dollars a month for your exceptional content. Keep up the great work and thank you for your service to our country. I wish we had a bunch more folks just like you.
I think 'Boarding House Rules' is the hoodie quote to take away from this one. Put that on the front and 'Everyone gets firsts before anyone gets seconds' on the back.' Nice and subtle in olive green with three spent brass casings at the corner of the text just for those who know...
My thinking is keep it simple The words in the right font, three empty brass casings, we can do the rest. If Ryan goes ahead with my suggestion I hope he makes them in super many XXLs so I can get me one!
My WW1 British grandfather told me how men would get very superstitious to the point where they would always put on one sock before the other int he same order otherwise they knew they would die; or pause and spin around before going left in the trenches or mark time twice if going right and all sorts of silly things. If is a big word in combat. He said "if your mam was your da you wouldn't be here, lad"
Kind of amazed there was no yelling or screaming from either side..especially after the explosion or when the militant is shot?..both guys must have experienced a lot of pain yet made no sound?? Or was it somehow filtered out of the vid?
Having been a US Marine, a paramedic, and a police SWAT officer, not everyone who gets shot, screams and yells in pain. The IDF soldier may well have fatally shot his opponents and they either quickly fell unconscious or quickly died. The second bad guy apparently got shot at least twice, perhaps more. Note: the IDF soldier was injured apparently by the explosive device, but other than checking his injury quickly, he made no fuss about it. This is combat, not a SWAT operation. As Ryan commented, sometimes you just have to pick the best out of a list of bad options. My compliments and respect to the IDF soldier for his courage and skill at arms.
ryan has a video on here of ukrainian soldiers storming a russian trench . they pump like 3 shots into a few russian guys they just fall over like a cadaver and don't move or make a sound. it almost looks fake.
Yep, the reality of how the human body reacts to gunshot wounds does not match the movie makers desire for "drama." Many shot people either run away or shoot back (depending on the seriousness of their wounds and/or their mental attitude), or they just drop. The movie makers like to make the shot person fly backwards 10 feet or more. Doesn't happen unless they get blasted by an artillery shell.
A little study into Newton's Third Law of Motion reveals the reason. Summarized: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." It is physically impossible for a 5.56mm or 7.62 bullet to impart enough force to throw a target backwards without throwing the shooter backwards the same way. Could you ever see a shot person seemingly get flung backwards? Yes, but that is almost always because the shot person saw he was about to be shot and tried to throw himself out of the way. Never as dramatic as in the movies though.
When I was a teenager, my father and I were watching the TV show "Combat." In one of their weekly firefights, one of the GIs shot a a German soldier with a an M-1 Garand. The German soldier character just dropped like a puppet with the strings cut. My dad pointed at the TV and said, "Finally! Someone acting like he was really shot!" I guessed he would know as he'd been in a bunch of shootouts with Japanese soldiers and saw people on both sides get shot. I learned for myself later in life how it really works.
Wow...interesting that they would have planned it so well to have an IED? Not questioning that is was or wasnt just that they knew were they would need one. Clearing buildings so they are safe for civilians to come back will be a bitch.
I'd have to agree with you, Ryan. If it had been a good grenade, the IDF soldier would have been much more seriously injured than he apparently was. I had a good friend who was Marine Recon in Vietnam and was seriously injured in both legs (on his way to getting a Navy Cross). Consider too, my friend was outdoors and not in an enclosed space like a hallway or even a fighting hole at the time.
After I read Ryan's erratum about the explosion's cause, I went back to the video and reviewed it several times. Yep, there was a grenade bouncing around. However, given the size of the explosion, and the relative lack of damage it left (extent of the wound to the soldier being unknown), I want to think the grenade was a Hamas DIY job or perhaps a concussion type. I think US/Israeli/Russian military fragmentation grenades would be much nastier, particularly in enclosed spaces. I am wondering why the IDF soldier didn't chuck a grenade of his own into the room before engaging the first bad guy. Some kind of ROE about getting eyes on your target in residential units and no "to whom it may concern" explosives? He might just have been out.
Other than my friend in the above comment, my father was wounded multiple times by Japanese grenades in WWII. He said that the Japanese grenade factory QC was pretty poor. Many were overcharged and fragments were very small, or undercharged, and only a few large fragments were produced. Some were normal. You never knew what you were getting until they went "boom." My dad picked tiny pieces of metal out of his skin for the rest of his life. He had two official Purple Hearts between Saipan and Tinian, but guessed he technically qualified for about 15.
They most likely seeded whole areas with booby traps. They'r not stupid and they had plenty of time to prepare. They knew what they ordered their men to do on 10/7 would bring own the wrath of the IDf. It was a planned move to bring the IDF to combat on their own turf. They care not for the civilians they supposedly represent and govern. I was a sapper, trained to clear booby traps and IEDs and that environment is prime territory for a lot of nasty surprises.
Though I immensely enjoy your journalistic analysis and style, there’s nothing to enjoy about this video. War is hell and killing someone’s will be with you the rest of your life. An immensely difficult situation in the Middle East with no clear “good outcome” in sight. Again, I do enjoy you sharing your skills and insights. Well spent money supporting your channel.
Turns out the guy was on a covered balcony not a hallway. IDF released a quick interview with him after he was hospitalized. Apparently, he got separated from his team. He didn't have a retreat option. In the interview he said that he collapsed after shooting the second fighter and his team found him and medevac'd him. From the context it seemed like it was only a minute or so but engaged in that fight with the two Hamas fighters, a minute might as well have been an hour; he was on his own in this battle.
This one's gonna bother me... where is his team? Why is he on a balcony alone and has to fight back downstairs? At least I think it's a balcony, with no egress behind him.
He seems relatively calm until the grenade goes off. Thanks to one of your other users, we know he is reporting that an enemy was killed when he yells early-ish in the video. Other than that, no communication. Maybe he's purposely staying quiet to hide the fact that it's just him on that balcony.
Thanks for the video as always. "Never give up the will to live" has stuck with me from your earlier story time youtube video and I intend to pass it on.
You can never know what happened just prior to the start of the video. They may have been just ambushed and his team is out of commission, or someone might have missed an entrance or turn in a split second and they separated, or the order of clearance might have been altered but someone miscommunicated. There are quite literally dozens of ways that well practiced and highly trained soldiers could end alone despite every effort to not be.
There’s a war story of a Canadian advancing on very worn out troops in WW2. He was alone but shouted orders to his BREN teams and snipers to take up positions. The enemy surrendered 25 or so infantry to one man.
As well as what everyone is talking about, it also looks like an advert to always wear your eye-protection. The amount of stuff thrown about by the grenade could mean one is functionally blind for a couple of minutes.
It looks like they were isolated on a closed balcony of an residential building. It appears that they put their backs to a wall a couple of times. So retreating was not an option. I wonder if their team got ambushed while clearing and the footage showing is after the seperation from the main group. Either way i hope they're resting up from that trail by fire.
Thanks for this, Ryan. I appreciate your calm analysis of a fairly intense and dramatic video. This is something very few civilians ever see outside of a video game and I was deeply glad it wasn’t me in that hallway. It is fascinating to see that there is method in this kind of thing. I wonder why the IDF soldier did not throw a grenade into the room. Perhaps he didn’t have one or would have exposed himself to the Hamas fighters inside. Thanks for bringing clarity to this as you do in all your posts.
Wow! Nice work Ryan, an excellent break down. I cant believe you caught the grenade coming in. In Embassy work we turned room clearing into a science/athletic event—doing it by yourself required so much more luck.
Just a note on communication, at 1:06 the soldier shouts in Hebrew "Terrorist killed". I don't know if he is shouting it to someone in particular but that may be some indication that the rest of his team is nearby.
Thanks for adding that fact for us, it added a great deal to this post.
I was wondering what the IDF soldier was yelling. I thought maybe he was giving whoever a chance to surrender. Guess not. He had no obligation to beg a terrorist to give up. They could have tried to do so on their own. My Hebrew is almost non-existent, so thanks for the translation.
It sounds like there are people possibly shooting into the room from the other side too? It seems that all the shooting wasn't at him from inside the room, as when they're shooting at him you can see the impact, so I think they had this terrorist pinned from two side. In that context, bumrushing the terrorist makes a lot more sense. Regardless, this was definitely a brave soldier.
I think he is shouting "מפנה לבד" = "mefaneh levad" = "clearing on my own". It could be "מחבל לבד" = "meHabel levad" = "terrorist on his own" but not "מחבל נהרג" = "meHabel neherag" = "terrorist killed".
I heard ״מחבל נפל״
It makes me happy to pay five dollars a month for your exceptional content. Keep up the great work and thank you for your service to our country. I wish we had a bunch more folks just like you.
"Just because your're shot doesn't mean your going to die" sounds perfect for the next hoodie
I think 'Boarding House Rules' is the hoodie quote to take away from this one. Put that on the front and 'Everyone gets firsts before anyone gets seconds' on the back.' Nice and subtle in olive green with three spent brass casings at the corner of the text just for those who know...
I second this!
Need good graphics too.
My thinking is keep it simple The words in the right font, three empty brass casings, we can do the rest. If Ryan goes ahead with my suggestion I hope he makes them in super many XXLs so I can get me one!
It’d be a big seller in Chicago.
From a comrade of Ryan's
If the defender in the apartment followed up after the explosion to clear the hallway then it would have been a different outcome.
It be like that sometimes.
My WW1 British grandfather told me how men would get very superstitious to the point where they would always put on one sock before the other int he same order otherwise they knew they would die; or pause and spin around before going left in the trenches or mark time twice if going right and all sorts of silly things. If is a big word in combat. He said "if your mam was your da you wouldn't be here, lad"
Kind of amazed there was no yelling or screaming from either side..especially after the explosion or when the militant is shot?..both guys must have experienced a lot of pain yet made no sound?? Or was it somehow filtered out of the vid?
Having been a US Marine, a paramedic, and a police SWAT officer, not everyone who gets shot, screams and yells in pain. The IDF soldier may well have fatally shot his opponents and they either quickly fell unconscious or quickly died. The second bad guy apparently got shot at least twice, perhaps more. Note: the IDF soldier was injured apparently by the explosive device, but other than checking his injury quickly, he made no fuss about it. This is combat, not a SWAT operation. As Ryan commented, sometimes you just have to pick the best out of a list of bad options. My compliments and respect to the IDF soldier for his courage and skill at arms.
ryan has a video on here of ukrainian soldiers storming a russian trench . they pump like 3 shots into a few russian guys they just fall over like a cadaver and don't move or make a sound. it almost looks fake.
Ron,
Yep, the reality of how the human body reacts to gunshot wounds does not match the movie makers desire for "drama." Many shot people either run away or shoot back (depending on the seriousness of their wounds and/or their mental attitude), or they just drop. The movie makers like to make the shot person fly backwards 10 feet or more. Doesn't happen unless they get blasted by an artillery shell.
A little study into Newton's Third Law of Motion reveals the reason. Summarized: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." It is physically impossible for a 5.56mm or 7.62 bullet to impart enough force to throw a target backwards without throwing the shooter backwards the same way. Could you ever see a shot person seemingly get flung backwards? Yes, but that is almost always because the shot person saw he was about to be shot and tried to throw himself out of the way. Never as dramatic as in the movies though.
When I was a teenager, my father and I were watching the TV show "Combat." In one of their weekly firefights, one of the GIs shot a a German soldier with a an M-1 Garand. The German soldier character just dropped like a puppet with the strings cut. My dad pointed at the TV and said, "Finally! Someone acting like he was really shot!" I guessed he would know as he'd been in a bunch of shootouts with Japanese soldiers and saw people on both sides get shot. I learned for myself later in life how it really works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahalom_(IDF)
Yahalom: a Special Force for Engineering Missions
Or how they are called back home, the 7 finger family.
Wow...interesting that they would have planned it so well to have an IED? Not questioning that is was or wasnt just that they knew were they would need one. Clearing buildings so they are safe for civilians to come back will be a bitch.
Some people said it was a grenade. I'm not entirely sure. I'm just not seeing any fragmentation.
I'd have to agree with you, Ryan. If it had been a good grenade, the IDF soldier would have been much more seriously injured than he apparently was. I had a good friend who was Marine Recon in Vietnam and was seriously injured in both legs (on his way to getting a Navy Cross). Consider too, my friend was outdoors and not in an enclosed space like a hallway or even a fighting hole at the time.
After I read Ryan's erratum about the explosion's cause, I went back to the video and reviewed it several times. Yep, there was a grenade bouncing around. However, given the size of the explosion, and the relative lack of damage it left (extent of the wound to the soldier being unknown), I want to think the grenade was a Hamas DIY job or perhaps a concussion type. I think US/Israeli/Russian military fragmentation grenades would be much nastier, particularly in enclosed spaces. I am wondering why the IDF soldier didn't chuck a grenade of his own into the room before engaging the first bad guy. Some kind of ROE about getting eyes on your target in residential units and no "to whom it may concern" explosives? He might just have been out.
Other than my friend in the above comment, my father was wounded multiple times by Japanese grenades in WWII. He said that the Japanese grenade factory QC was pretty poor. Many were overcharged and fragments were very small, or undercharged, and only a few large fragments were produced. Some were normal. You never knew what you were getting until they went "boom." My dad picked tiny pieces of metal out of his skin for the rest of his life. He had two official Purple Hearts between Saipan and Tinian, but guessed he technically qualified for about 15.
They most likely seeded whole areas with booby traps. They'r not stupid and they had plenty of time to prepare. They knew what they ordered their men to do on 10/7 would bring own the wrath of the IDf. It was a planned move to bring the IDF to combat on their own turf. They care not for the civilians they supposedly represent and govern. I was a sapper, trained to clear booby traps and IEDs and that environment is prime territory for a lot of nasty surprises.
Though I immensely enjoy your journalistic analysis and style, there’s nothing to enjoy about this video. War is hell and killing someone’s will be with you the rest of your life. An immensely difficult situation in the Middle East with no clear “good outcome” in sight. Again, I do enjoy you sharing your skills and insights. Well spent money supporting your channel.
Turns out the guy was on a covered balcony not a hallway. IDF released a quick interview with him after he was hospitalized. Apparently, he got separated from his team. He didn't have a retreat option. In the interview he said that he collapsed after shooting the second fighter and his team found him and medevac'd him. From the context it seemed like it was only a minute or so but engaged in that fight with the two Hamas fighters, a minute might as well have been an hour; he was on his own in this battle.
This one's gonna bother me... where is his team? Why is he on a balcony alone and has to fight back downstairs? At least I think it's a balcony, with no egress behind him.
He seems relatively calm until the grenade goes off. Thanks to one of your other users, we know he is reporting that an enemy was killed when he yells early-ish in the video. Other than that, no communication. Maybe he's purposely staying quiet to hide the fact that it's just him on that balcony.
Thanks for the video as always. "Never give up the will to live" has stuck with me from your earlier story time youtube video and I intend to pass it on.
You can never know what happened just prior to the start of the video. They may have been just ambushed and his team is out of commission, or someone might have missed an entrance or turn in a split second and they separated, or the order of clearance might have been altered but someone miscommunicated. There are quite literally dozens of ways that well practiced and highly trained soldiers could end alone despite every effort to not be.
There’s a war story of a Canadian advancing on very worn out troops in WW2. He was alone but shouted orders to his BREN teams and snipers to take up positions. The enemy surrendered 25 or so infantry to one man.
As well as what everyone is talking about, it also looks like an advert to always wear your eye-protection. The amount of stuff thrown about by the grenade could mean one is functionally blind for a couple of minutes.
It looks like they were isolated on a closed balcony of an residential building. It appears that they put their backs to a wall a couple of times. So retreating was not an option. I wonder if their team got ambushed while clearing and the footage showing is after the seperation from the main group. Either way i hope they're resting up from that trail by fire.
Great analysis.
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Thanks for this, Ryan. I appreciate your calm analysis of a fairly intense and dramatic video. This is something very few civilians ever see outside of a video game and I was deeply glad it wasn’t me in that hallway. It is fascinating to see that there is method in this kind of thing. I wonder why the IDF soldier did not throw a grenade into the room. Perhaps he didn’t have one or would have exposed himself to the Hamas fighters inside. Thanks for bringing clarity to this as you do in all your posts.
Wow! Nice work Ryan, an excellent break down. I cant believe you caught the grenade coming in. In Embassy work we turned room clearing into a science/athletic event—doing it by yourself required so much more luck.
Boy, I hope his team was close enough to finish the unit clearance and casevac him.