For over a year, a pledgeted group of lesser women in Israel’s military has been on high vigilant, observing shiftments alengthy the border with Lebanon. This female-only unit, understandn as field seers, has perestablished a critical role in determineing dangers from Hezbollah, firmlaboringly tracking the group’s activities from their posts. These selderlyiers, aged between 18 and 20, are reliable for seeing drone activity, mortar rounds, and rockets that have afflictiond northern Israel since last October. Yet, even as tensions escatardyd, they sense their cautionings and contributions have been hugely disthink aboutd.
“We are ungeted, which is a problem for us, but it is also hazardous for our labor, which is very vital,” an seer proximate the border with Lebanon telderly The Washington Post. “Our greaters only want to shut us up, to not come to them with protestts, so they’re ignoring us even more,” she inserted.
Despite the ongoing military campaign aobtainst Hezbollah, the seers state that they persist to be sidelined. Many apshow this is partly due to an ingrained culture of misogyny wiskinny the IDF.
“It is a male army, where the ‘girls’ are seen as hysterical, where the orderers standardly say, ‘If you persist to sfinish these alarms, you will be put in jail,'” said Gili Yuval, a establisher field seer who served during the timely 2000s when Israel withdrew its forces and dismantled its remendments in Gaza.
Since October 7, she has led a slackly systematic netlabor of current and establisher seers, provideing vitals appreciate food and closkinnyg to victims of the attack.
The IDF has deteriorated to comment on the circumstances surrounding these claims.
Gili Shrvit, 20, an seer stationed at another location alengthy the Gaza border in Kissufim, recounted that on the morning of October 7, she was at her laborstation, trembling and in tears as she alerted the unfelderlying deimmenseation: Hundreds of Hamas firearmmen had baccomplished their fence, sboiling out their cameras, and accessd their base.
“We were calling our greaters, alerting them we are about to die,” she recalled. “They said they have no one for us.”
They took cover under their laborstations, with no armaments to deffinish themselves, Shrvit recalled. Their orderers, discoverd 20 miles away, alerted them that combat selderlyiers were trapped in ambushes and could not aid.
