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The 84th "Givati" Brigade (Hebrew: חֲטִיבַת גִּבְעָתִי, lit. '"Hill Brigade" or "Highland Brigade"') is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade formed in 1947. During the 1948 war , it was involved in capturing Palestinian villages in operations Hametz , Barak , and Pleshet .
On 1 August during the 2014 Gaza War, Hamas militants emerged from a tunnel and attacked an Israeli patrol in Rafah. [15] Killing two Israeli soldiers, the militants returned to Rafah through a tunnel, bringing the body of Givati Brigade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin with them. [16]
He then served as a battalion commander in the Givati Brigade between 2002 and 2003, [2] leading the unit in combat against Palestinian political violence during the Second Intifada in the Gaza Strip. [3] Later, he became the deputy commander of the Givati reconnaissance unit between 2006 and 2007.
Hamas has claimed to have built hundreds of kilometers of tunnels ... the IDF said that troops from its Givati Brigade also operated in western Jablaya and were targeting a Hamas commander in the ...
On May 29, 2022, he was appointed the commander of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Strip. [5] On October 7, 2023, he was killed during the battles in a surprise attack on Israel, defending Kibbutz Nirim. His body was kidnapped to Gaza by the Hamas organization. [7] A funeral proceeding for Hamami was performed without his body.
Israel has admitted making a “grave mistake” after its forces killed seven aid workers in a drone strike, insisting officials believed a Hamas gunman was among the unarmed convoy.. In an ...
It also stated that the Givati Brigade had killed around 100 militants during their operations in Shaboura in past days and had eliminated a miltant cell. [393] Hamas meanwhile targeted IDF troops in Tel al-Sultan and Zalata. [394] The IDF shut the humanitarian aid route near Rafah after Hamas attacked it. [395]
Ofer Winter (עופר וינטר; born February 3, 1971) is a retired IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier General, in the reserves since 2024.He served as the commander of 98th Paratroopers Division, the military secretary to the Israeli Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the Central Command, the commander of the Givati Brigade, the commander of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza ...