IDF forces continue fighting in the Gaza Strip, and it has now been released for publication that a Golani Brigade combat team eliminated seven terrorists within ten minutes. This was done thanks to Amanim, IDF intelligence teams working on the ground with forces in the field. Dozens of such teams are now operating for the first time, providing intelligence for maneuvering forces in Gaza.
The Defense and Maneuver Center is the intelligence branch responsible for producing, researching, and providing accessible tactical information to soldiers in the field in order to improve their operational effectiveness in defense and on the offense and leading to quick loop closure combined with precise intelligence and lethal fire. In routine times, the center works to build up forces for emergencies, and is now supporting the IDF maneuver effort.
Every maneuvering division and combat team has an array behind it known as an Adan (IDF Intelligence Unit for Deployed Ranks) whose aim is to collate and exhaust existing intelligence gathering and research sources in the IDF Intelligence Branch and with complete cooperation with the Israeli intelligence community as a whole and make it all accessible to forces in the field. The operational need goes up from the division and the brigade to the Adan, where a complete collection response is provided. In one array, there are wireless device handlers, web intelligence officers, decoders, and researchers, whose purpose is to protect our forces and destroy activists of the Hamas terror organizations.
Thanks to Aman: Golani Soldiers Eliminated Seven Terrorists in Ten Minutes
Another example of a successful closed loop is the elimination of seven terrorists in ten minutes by soldiers in a Golani Brigade combat team. From the moment the Golani Adan force receives indications of a terrorist presence, the forward command post is informed of the threat. The command post then closes the loop with the forces in the field, and thanks to the soldiers and artillery fire, 7 terrorists were eliminated.
Amanim at the Defense and Maneuver Center work to provide realtime combat intelligence to the troops. (Source: IDF Spokesperson)
Another example of a loop closure carried out by the Defense and Maneuver Center was the elimination of Nasser-Radwan company commander, terrorist Ahmad Siam. In the morning hours of last Friday, the Givati Adan noted the unusual presence of Siam in a school in the northern Strip area.
Givati Aman Led to the Elimination of the Terrorist Who Held 1,000 People Hostage
It was revealed that Siam was keeping about a thousand residents of the Gaza Strip hostage to serve as human shields in the Rantisi Hospital and prevented them from evacuating to the south of the Strip. By cross-referencing a number of research layers with all available sources, the IDF confirmed that Siam was above ground. In the afternoon, he was struck by an Air Force aircraft in a precise loop closure. Watch:
Elimination of Ahmad Siam. (Source: IDF Spokesperson)
Major Y., Intelligence Officer for the 401st Brigade, discussed the Amans: “The connection with the Adan works effectively since this is an organic body with the brigade, which also trains with the brigade in realtime and shares its combat procedures. In the Swords of Iron War, we took this whole multidisciplinary organization and bumped it up a level.”
“All the intelligence people in the field are connected via earphone to the Adan people and thus manage to quickly close loops against terrorists expressed through the use of fire or direction of a single tank at the edge towards those terrorists. Adan 401 has certain confirmations of many dozens of terrorists who found their deaths thanks to that rapid loop closure.”