HEAR THEM ROAR: Israel deploys world’s toughest all-female ‘Cheetah Battalion’ on secret op in heart of Gaza to hunt for Hamas’s leaders

This comes after decades of female fighters pushing for involvement in the Israeli military

ISRAEL has deployed a battalion of their best, strongest and most professional female fighters to carry out a "special activity" in Gaza.

29-year-old Major Shira, the commander of this elite all-female team, described their actions in the Gaza Strip as "another glass ceiling shattered".

She told Israeli media that she received instructions from the commander of the mixed battalion dubbed the Cheetah Battalion to create an all-women team.

Although Major Shira was unable to reveal much information about their activity, she said that their specialist team was helping with the continuation of fighting and military intelligence.

She said: "We are fighters alongside men and in cooperation with special units.

"This is a high point, another glass ceiling that has been shattered."

Major Shira added that this is an exciting point in time for her, and her team, both as commanders in the IDF and as women.

She said: "We have been through hundreds of violent smuggling, and shooting is not a foreign thing to us, and still, entering Gaza is different.

"What's more, we have a responsibility. A petition to return all female fighters home. I am very proud of them, they simply give their souls."

Captain Panina, 26, was a former police officer who has also been given a significant role, as part of this task force.

Much like Major Shira, she believes that the successes of their battalion is paving the way for future female fighters in the IDF.

She said: "When the fighting started, we did things that had never been seen before in the battalion.

"We arrived from the Egyptian sector to Gaza, which is an area of ​​more than 200 km.

"It's crazy. A large force of the battalion arrived at Holit to help, evacuate the wounded and fight.

"At the beginning we captured a line of defense in the envelope, this has not happened before."

Captain Panina added: "This is one of the most frightening, exciting and significant events. In the end when you enter it is a battlefield.

"You see, hear and smell everything. October 7 was a turning point, everything we have experienced since then is complex.

"The feelings are mixed, there is no one in the country who has not lost someone or been injured."

She went on to speak about the "crazy motivation" female combatants are currently experiencing, and suggested that the war has changed her societies attitudes to female fighters.

Captain Panina said: "It seems that the discussions and controversies that have been heard on the subject until today are similar to the facts on the ground.

"The reactions are exciting and moving, there is a lot of interest."

While Major Shira said: "There were always raised eyebrows, and now a little less.

"We see that the attitude is changing, we pass through the settlements and see the citizens' perspective.

"We receive a lot of feedback about the professionalism, and our truth is that it feels natural, especially in the field.

"We breathe the mission and the operationality."

Although women were allowed to join the IDF as combat soldiers in 1948, following the end of the War of Independence, women were banned from holding such positions.

This stance lasted until the late 1990s when women were permitted to join infantry units and the artillery corps.

In the early to mid 200s, more positions were opened to them - such as the military police, combat engineering corps, and other units - although they still faced a lot of resistance.

Now, attitudes have been changing as Israel turn its attention to the annihilation of Hamas.

This is especially the case after one all-female defence squad were able to liberate a kibbutz early in the fighting against Hamas.

As Lt-Col Ben-Yehuda and her 12-women squad zoned in on a Hamas base in the southern Israel kibbutz of Sufa while 50 heavily-armed terrorists charged towards them.

At the time it was reported that the commander came face-to-face with a male terrorist and shot him at close range.

She instead directed her attack fire at the terrorists who were out in the open and scattered around the base.

It took 14 hours for them to secure the base.

Lt-Col Ben-Yehuda said the result was proof there "are no more doubts about female combat soldiers".

She praised her soldiers' "significant contributions" to winning the battle and killing about 100 terrorists, as well as saving the lives of the wounded by carrying out helicopter evacuations while under fire.

She said: "The training and performance [of the female combat units] on the battlefield have erased any doubts [about their ability].

"They fought bravely, saved lives, and emerged as heroes."

It comes as Hamas claims 18,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the outbreak of the war.

The terror group alleges 70% of this number is accounted for by women and children.

Hamas' figures have not been independently verified, and doubt has been cast on them by Israel and the US.

But the humanitarian crisis in the strip does continue to worsen.

The IDF's bombardment and ground invasion has also reduced much of the region to rubble.

Israeli forces have been warning civilians to leave, but Hamas are feared to be using innocent Gazans as human shields.

Tens of thousands more Palestinians are feared to still be lying under the debris.

Most of Gaza's 2.3 million people are now homeless, trapped in a coastal enclave with no shelter, no food, and no water.

UN officials have warned that without a ceasefire, Gaza risks becoming a slaughterhouse.

Israel is attempting to destroy the terrorist group after they butchered some 1,200 Israelis - including brutalising women and children - and took dozens of hostages on October 7.

Israeli troops often work in mixed battalions - but there are some all-female units.

misreal:
Kill them all

CameroonPepper:
They will all return pregnant.
This I have seen.

talk2hb1:

Kill non combattant children and women?
To kill innocent kids and women you know nothing about, this is how degraded humanity has become.

Codepain:
Maybe they will do a better job than these pathetic soldiers when facing Men

AntiTerrorist:
How did you come about this your conclusion? Are there only women and children in Gaza strip? For your information, what IDF is doing is to help Palestinians by liberating them from the grip of Hamas muslim terrorists who has been holding them hostages for more than a decade. Palestinians must be free.

talk2hb1:

Kill non combattant children and women?
To kill innocent kids and women you know nothing about, this is how degraded humanity has become.

Newton2024:
If the do better than male soldiers who have killed more than 20k Islamic terrorists, then that means the whole Gaza strip would be annihilated. You have to pity your fellow muslim terrorists.

CameroonPepper:
They will all return pregnant.
This I have seen.

misreal:

Yeah..
When a child has been so brainwashed as to hide terrorist and support terrorist what do you think will happen to them?
This argument of killing women and children doesn’t move me at all.
It is like asking me to allow a child kill my family because he is a child.

talk2hb1:

Don't you listen to news that 70% of those killed so far in Gaza are women and children.
Or just dey shout upadan without knowledge of what is happening on battle ground

talk2hb1:

Tooh, l have nothing further to discuss with you.
I just pray you don't die filled with hatred.

Floky215:


That news is from Hamas terrosit network..!! and everybody have seen through their lies that why the world is quiet, even Saudi Arabia..!!

The Arab would wants a total clean up in gaza before the get another ISIS on their hands to deal with...!!
Gaza own is so bad that a whole population of people are terrosit...!!
You can only get about 3% of less of population in gaza who are sane and got no ties with the main terrosit organization driving the strip...!!

talk2hb1:

Kill non combattant children and women?
To kill innocent kids and women you know nothing about, this is how degraded humanity has become.

CameroonPepper:
They will all return pregnant.
This I have seen.

talk2hb1:

Don't you listen to news that 70% of those killed so far in Gaza are women and children.
Or just dey shout upadan without knowledge of what is happening on battle ground

motayoayinde:
Who gave them the title "world toughest"?

Some of you are just irredeemably stupid.

That was how the Golani brigade was described as the most advanced and most sophisticated until Hamas slaughtered more than half of them.
The Idf quickly herded the remaining together and ran away with them from Gaza. 😆

The other inferior brigades they left in Gaza are already going crazy after being killed like chickens.

These slay queens in military gears will never be sent to Gaza. They are in the west bank harassing innocent women as that's the ONLY THING they can do.

talk2hb1:

Even the Christian among them or do you think because they are Muslims alone

Floky215:


How many Christians are there..? Most have relocated and the remaining followed instructions and moved out of the war theatre..!!
Have you ever seen any christian hamas preaching to kill in the name of Jesus or want to kill everybody cos Jesus wills it...!!

There are gazans who are Christians but have zero percent violence in them..!!
They are among the few sane ones in gaza and if they are the only ones to remain so be it...instead of having hate filled neighbour next door whose only wish and ambition in life is to kill you, its better to clean them out early to save your self...!!!

Whatisurproblem:
in October 7 2023, those women and children were all seen jubilating when dumb Hamas attacked Isreal killing women, children and old silk people taking hostages, then you did not complain, again Houtis from Yemen has been attacking ships in red sea taking hostages, you are not condemning that now but latter you will come here shouting free Yemen. All of you will die at once and let live. Useless Terrorists

Gainman:
by aljazeera or who

CameroonPepper:
They will all return pregnant.
This I have seen.

Gadafii:
Isreal has killed everything in Gaza except hamas 😂😂