The base in the rear, “Ready in ten seconds to help the wounded”

IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL – A father goes to visit his soldier daughter at an Israeli military base near the Gaza Strip. He has a plastic bag full of pomegranates because he spent Sunday volunteering for fruit picking and came home with a share as a gift. These days, journalists’ access to soldiers as they invade the Gaza Strip is prohibited, but the army Israel it is an army of reservists, according to the “people’s army” formula, and parents can meet their children when they can with a bag of food or change: you enter with pomegranates, at the gate the sentries let you pass with a nod of… .