Two IDF combat soldiers were injured Monday, one of them seriously, during a training exercise in the Golan Heights.
According to available details, the accident happened when the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer in which the pair were traveling overturned during maneuvers. Both men were airlifted to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa for treatment.
GOC Army Headquarters Maj. Gen. Yaakov Barak has ordered an investigation into the incident.
Also on Monday, four officers were officially reprimanded over a Nov. 12 incident in which Hamas fired a missile on an IDF bus that had bypassed a roadblock set up by the Military Police near the Israel-Gaza Strip border.
Video footage of the incident released by Hamas shows a Kornet laser-guided missile hitting the bus directly. A group of around 30 soldiers had disembarked from the bus moments before the attack, and only one soldier, 19, who had remained on the bus sustained serious injuries.
Following an investigation of the incident, an official notation was made in the service records of the commander of the regional brigade and the regimental commander who allowed the bus to travel in the sector, which at the time was under heavy Hamas fire.
The two company commanders who were with the troops on the bus and lied to Military Police personnel at the scene to bypass the roadblock were also reprimanded.
"This incident was studies and the conclusion drawn from it were implemented on the ground," the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.
