Where were you?In Defensive Shield, we began at Tul Karm.
And what did you do there?There was this new procedure at the time there, of passing through walls. First we tried hammers, but that didn't work. I mean, pretty soon you realize it's no good because as soon as you enter the older areas, the houses are built of stone and a hammer doesn't do it. So you place a 5-kg explosive charge, even twice, and only then do you get a small hole in the wall and pass on to the next house. That's it. Essentially destruction there was going on at an insane level, huge. I think it spared a lot of lives, perhaps soldiers' too, because we had no contact with the enemy, you know. We saw all kinds of explosive charges through the windows and we were going through the walls, but it was sad on a personal level to see that each house you entered would be totally destroyed from the blast, nothing would remain intact. You only saw the street you searched, but you knew that it was the same throughout the town.