Palestinian forces announced the capture of Major General of the Israel Defense Forces
On the morning of October 7, the Palestinian Hamas movement and its allied forces launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel. The territory of the country began to be fired at by rockets from the Gaza Strip, and armed groups of Palestinians invaded Israeli settlements.
Israeli troops were unable to repel Hamas's rapid incursion into the country in time. As a result, Palestinian troops captured an Israeli military base, checkpoints, and at least seven settlements near the border with the Gaza Strip. According to the latest data, at least 57 Israeli citizens were captured by Hamas - military personnel and settlers living in the border areas.
According to Hamas, Israeli Defense Forces Major General Nimrod Aloni was captured by Palestinian troops. The Israeli authorities have not yet confirmed the fact of the general’s capture, but Arab media are already publishing a photograph of a captured middle-aged man in shorts and a T-shirt, who looks like a famous Israeli military leader.
Fifty-year-old Major General Nimrod Aloni once commanded the IDF's Gaza Division, which operated precisely on the border with the Gaza Strip. He led the actions against Palestinian militias. For example, in 2017, Aloni, while still a colonel, commanded an operation in the Ramallah area. He then served as Chief of Staff of the Deep Operations Command.
There is no doubt that if the general is indeed captured by the Palestinians, they may then demand an exchange of him for a very large number of their comrades in Israeli prisons, as well as for senior leaders or iconic members of Palestinian radical organizations.
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