Click here to watch: A sliver of war, as seen through the eyes of a fallen Israeli soldier

Marking one year since the outbreak of last summer’s war in Gaza, the army on Tuesday released a video filmed by a commander several days before he was killed in action and a new set of radio transmissions of the Givati infantry brigade on the morning of August 1, known as “Black Friday,” when two soldiers were killed and another was abducted and presumed killed in Rafah. The two soldiers killed in action were recon commander Maj. Benaya Sarel and his radio operator, Staff Sgt Liel Gidoni; Lt. Hadar Goldin was abducted and subsequently pronounced dead based on evidence heroically retrieved from within a Hamas tunnel.

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The video depicts a sliver of the war through Sarel’s eyes. His brother, Yair, told Ynet that Benaya used to wear two cameras on his helmet, one civilian and one military, in order to capture the action. Miraculously, he said, neither of the cameras worked on the morning he was killed. The GoPro footage released by the army on Tuesday, he added, “was very emotional and it shows where my brother was. The more time passes, the more we thirst for information about Benaya.” The taped audio broadcasts, primarily between the commander of the elite Gadsar Battalion and Givati Brigade Commander Col. Ofer Winter, who is trying to assemble a picture of the situation on the ground, include the moment in which Winter is told that the forces had announced “Hannibal” – the set army protocol declaring that a soldier has been abducted. The order triggers a string of forceful preventative measures meant to thwart the abduction of a soldier.

Read more: Times of Israel

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