God 'Has More for Me to Do': IDF Combat Engineer Survives Gaza Explosions, Learns to Pray for His Enemies
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JERUSALEM, Israel – The phrase "War is Hell" has resonated since U.S.General William Tecumseh Sherman said it to military cadets 14 years after the Civil War. Israeli combat engineer, Lt. Col. Levi Davis experienced the hell of war firsthand in Gaza. He had just been married for two months when Hamas's attack on October 7th plunged him into combat.
In a studio interview with CBN News, Davis remembered, "We were called down to Gaza, to specifically deal with tunnels and enemy infrastructure, just to blow them up with all of the tunnels of Hamas. Those tunnels have been such a point of so much death and so much destruction and trauma, and taking the hostages in, but our forces being inside, they've used it to come out and hurt our forces."
Davis continued, "So for three months we were in and out of Gaza every day, and we would have one or two missions, sometimes three or four, every single day, and we would have to go in, do our work, come out, reload our explosives, going in again. And it was very, very physically intense. Not much sleep. Many early mornings, many late nights. But there was so much work."
We asked Davis how the men knew where the tunnels were.
He replied, "There are many, many units inside all the time moving forward, clearing out streets. And as they were moving forward, they would identify these tunnels or these different places that would need to be dealt with. And they would call us, and they would send us the location, and they would be there waiting for us.
The work required swift coordination between the tunnel units, but sometimes Davis's group would hit delays that saved their lives.
He recalled, "And me and my friends, we were working on one tunnel, we were about to go to the next one, and (were) just about 20 meters away from this next tunnel that we had already been supposed to be working on, but we were delayed."
He added, "It literally blew up right in front of us. Thankfully, the Lord really protected us,