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The Givati Brigade participated in Operation Hot Winter. It also participated in the ground phase of Operation Cast Lead, when of all IDF brigades, it penetrated deepest into Gaza City. The brigade's reconnaissance battalion entered the Tel el-Hawa neighborhood in search of Hamas operatives two days before the cease fire went into effect. An ...
261st Infantry Brigade (IDF Officers' School Brigade) 226th Paratroopers Brigade "Nesher" 228th Infantry Brigade "Alon" 551st Paratroopers Brigade "Hetzei HaEsch" 646th Paratroopers Brigade "Schualey Marom" 855th Guard Brigade "Hashomer" [1] (formed December 2023) 5692th Infantry Brigade "Ari" 6050th Infantry Brigade "Daniel"
Soldiers of all five brigades at the Western Wall - from left to right, Kfir Brigade, Golani Brigade, Paratroopers Brigade, Givati Brigade, and Nahal Brigade The personal weapon of most IDF soldiers is the IWI Tavor X-95 "Micro-Tavor", and M4A1 assault rifle.
Hamami enlisted in the IDF in 2001, was placed in the Givati Brigade and accepted into the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion. [5] He underwent training as a fighter, an infantry commanders' course, and an infantry officers' course. Upon completing the course, he returned to the Reconnaissance Battalion and was appointed a team commander.
Afterward, he went to pursue higher education and returned to the Givati Brigade as the operations officer, serving in this role between 2008 and 2009, including during Operation Cast Lead. [ 2 ] In 2009, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and appointed as the commander of the Tzabar Battalion, serving until 2011.
An Israeli soldier carries a heavy shell past battle tanks deployed at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on Dec. 31, 2023. (Menahem Kahana / AFP - Getty Images)
During the 2014 Gaza War, the 460th Brigade carried out ground operations in the Gaza Strip. The three southernmost Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip—the 84th Givati Brigade, the 35th Paratrooper Brigade, and the 460th Armored Brigade—were engaged in severe fighting. [2] The 460th Armored Brigade had operated in Deir al-Balah. [3]
The IDF claimed the Central Jabalya Battalion had taken control of civilian buildings and said collapsed tunnels were partly responsible for the scale of destruction caused by Tuesday’s strike.