Todays Pics, Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

[Lancero]

Activists aboard the Dignity boat (R) arrive to the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre 30 December 2008. An Israeli naval vessel collided today with the boat carrying activists and medical supplies that were trying to break the blockade of Gaza, forcing it to head to Tyre in Lebanon. Passengers on board the (66-foot) Dignity said the Israeli patrol boat rammed their vessel, but Israel insisted the two boats collided as the Israeli navy was trying to contact its captain

Israeli sappers remove an exploded Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants inside the Gaza Strip on 30 December 2008, from a soft farm road where it exploded and embedded in the ground. No one was hurt. In the fourth day of the Israeli military operation against Hamas assets in side the Gaza Strip, militants continue to shell southern Israel with Kassam and Grad rockets

An Israeli soldier aims his gun to stop Palestinians, at Bet Eba checkpoint near the West Bank City of Nablus, 30 December 2008. Israeli soildiers arrested a Palestinian man at the checkpoint after they caught him carriying explosive devices. Israel pounded more targets in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day, as a massive military operation aimed at curbing rocket and mortar attacks from the salient entered its fourth day

Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert tries on a helmet as he visits an Israeli Air Force Base in south Israel, 30 December 2008. The air campaign against Gaza in only the first of several phases of Israel‘s offensive in the strip, caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said 29 December. At least 10 people died in the latest airstrikes 30 December, bringing the Palestinian toll of Operation "Cast Lead" to more than 360 dead and 1,700 injured.

Israeli soldiers work as tanks deploy 30 December 2008 near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Israel continues to reinforce its troops in advance of an expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. The toll of Operation Cast Lead - launched 27 December to curb rocket and mortar attacks from the strip - meanwhile reached at least 345 Palestinian dead and 1,600 injured, Gaza emergency services chief Muawia Hassanein said

Indonesian police officers display confiscated arms during press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on 30 December 2008. Indonesia police seized dozens of arms, 8,5 kilos of heroin, 1,5 tons of marijuana, and 16,000 methamphetamine pils in several operations in the end of the year. Indonesia has tightened security in the country ahead of the Christmas day and New Year Eve. Indonesia was hit by a series of major terrorist acts from 2000 to 2005, including the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, hotel explosion in 2003 and the Australian embassy bombing in 2004, killing more than 250 people.

Thai soldiers with anti-riot shields take position outside the Royal Palace near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announces his government's policy statement in Bangkok, Thailand, 30 December 2008. Thailand's new cabinet launched its administration at the foreign ministry, where legislators were forced to gather after Parliament was surrounded by anti-government protestors

A police's helmet is float above Thai anit-riot police officers as they clash with supporters of fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra during the second day of massive rally besiege Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, 30 December 2008. Thousands of red-shirt pro-Thaksin Shinawatra supporters blocking entry to parliament and preventing the new Abhisit Vejjajiva cabinet from delivering its policy statement aimed at toppling the new administration

A Colombian Defense Ministery handout, shows Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos (C) soldiers, in Bogota, Colombia, 29 December 2008. The disabled men will try to climb next 10 January the Aconcagua Volcano, in Argentina, the highest mountain in America, 6,900 meters above the sea

[The Mighty Quinn]

Nice start, stay vigilant Israel.

[Jocker_89]

Pakistan army arrive at their base camp in Jamrud, a town in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 near Peshawar. Pakistan closed the main route used to ferry supplies to U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan on Tuesday after launching a fresh offensive against militants in the area. The road through the Khyber Pass in the northwest of Pakistan has come under increasing attacks by militants seeking to squeeze Western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan in recent months.

Pakistan army tanks arrive at the base camp in Jamrud, a town in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 near Peshawar. Pakistan closed the main route used to ferry supplies to U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan on Tuesday after launching a fresh offensive against militants in the area. The road through the Khyber Pass in the northwest of Pakistan has come under increasing attacks by militants seeking to squeeze Western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan in recent months.

US Army Major Kropp (C-behind) is escorted by an armed US soldier as he walks through a class of trainees during the opening session on December 30, 2008 of training workshops in mechanics at the Centre for Workshops for the Unemployed, run by the Karrada Council with US assistance, in central Baghdad. Iraq will next year confront the mammoth task of rebuilding amid lingering violence, having largely routed insurgents and nailed down a timeline for the withdrawal of US troops.

A wounded Israeli soldier is wheeled into a hospital in the southern city of Beersheba after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed near the border December 29, 2008. Rockets fired by Islamist militants in Gaza killed three Israelis, two after nightfall in less than an hour, increasing pressure on the government as the army amassed infantry and armoured forces along the border.

Palestinian youths, protesting Israel's offensive in Gaza, throw stones at police and military vehicles driving past in al-Ram in the West Bank on the outskirts of Jerusalem December 30, 2008. Israel hit the Gaza Strip with more air strikes on Tuesday and said its military action could last weeks, while rockets fired by Islamist Hamas struck deep inside the Jewish state.

A Palestinian youth shot with live ammunition by an Israeli soldier is carried by others during a protest following a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Israeli aircraft kept up a relentless string of assaults on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Tuesday, smashing a government complex, security installations and the home of a top militant commander as thousands of Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and artillery, massed along the border, waiting for a signal to attack.

[Snoshi]

Those tanks on the left look like Magash.

[IDF_TANKER]

Originally Posted by Snoshi

Those tanks on the left look like Magash.

Looks like Magach7. Very strange to see them. They're planning something really big if they pulled those dinosaurs out.

[Snoshi]

Originally Posted by IDF_TANKER

Looks like Magach7. Very strange to see them. They're planning something really big if they pulled those dinosaurs out.

Thats what ive been thinking.. AFAIK even during the 06 war they dint pull them out...

[VAMAN]

Very nice start today.

[IDF_TANKER]

Originally Posted by Snoshi

Thats what ive been thinking.. AFAIK even during the 06 war they dint pull them out...

I don't think that they are going to get them in Gaza, probably will be used for current security tasks on the border or something. AFAIK, they did the same during the Defensive Shield operation.

[NimDod]

Originally Posted by IDF_TANKER

Looks like Magach7. Very strange to see them. They're planning something really big if they pulled those dinosaurs out.

damn! I thought there's no way they would call up those old teapots.
maybe we should go over the gear at home, just in case we'll get a phone call...

[Jimski]

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Indonesian police officers display confiscated arms during press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia on 30 December 2008. Indonesia police seized dozens of arms, 8,5 kilos of heroin, 1,5 tons of marijuana, and 16,000 methamphetamine pils in several operations in the end of the year. Indonesia has tightened security in the country ahead of the Christmas day and New Year Eve. Indonesia was hit by a series of major terrorist acts from 2000 to 2005, including the Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005, hotel explosion in 2003 and the Australian embassy bombing in 2004, killing more than 250 people.

Those in this pic are airsoft toys though, in the middle of the pic there is an inner barrel in its packaging , and there's a paintball hopper also...

[NimDod]

Originally Posted by Snoshi

Those tanks on the left look like Magash.

and that 4rd one from the right (a bit in the distance) looks like a Magach with no additional turret armor.
very strange.

[Battlebuds]

Awesome pics, great start, thanks for posting.

[Lancero]

Originally Posted by NimDod

and that 4rd one from the right (a bit in the distance) looks like a Magach with no additional turret armor.
very strange.

Here's the hires.

Members of the National Police guards the entrance to the Israel's Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 30 December 2008. Human Rights activists rallied in front of the Embassy against the conflict in Gaza

Isralei soldiers and comrades of Lutfi Nasser A-Di mourn during his funeral in the village of Dalyat El-Carmel, near Haifa, on 30 December 2008. Nasser A-Din, a Druze soldier in the Isralei army was killed by a Palestinian missile on 29 December 2008 near Nahal Oz along the border with the Gaza Strip

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers make a bunker on the route of mourning procession, as the holy month of Moharram, the first month of Islamic lunar calendar, begins in Quetta Pakistan on 30 December 2008. The climax of Moharramul Haram is the Ashura festival commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed in the Iraqi city of Karbala in the seventh century

A Palestinian woman pledges with an Israeli soldier for the release of her son arrested earlier during a stone throwing incident in the West Bank city of Hebron, 30 December 2008. Palestinians have reported at least 10 dead in the latest airstrikes, bringing the toll of operation 'Cast Lead' to at least 360 Palestinians dead and 1,600 injured.

A fire engine of Catalonia region stuck into a hole in the promenade of Cadaques, in Girona, north-eastern Spain, caused by the rainstorm that hit the Catalonia region, on 29 December 2008

[IDF_TANKER]

Originally Posted by NimDod

damn! I thought there's no way they would call up those old teapots.
maybe we should go over the gear at home, just in case we'll get a phone call...

I'm in Home Front Home Command in reserve, man - no tanks for me.

[NimDod]

Originally Posted by Lancero

Here's the hires.

thanks.
looks at the pic in high res, I can see that the unarmored Mahach on the right has the old rubber tracks, unlike the Magach 7c on the left who (usually) have the "MK3 tracks".
the engine comparment is gone, including it's doors, and the engine itself is also missing.
the bolts on the turret and the chasis' 5 upper (smaller) roadwheels (instead of 3 on the Magach7) idicate that this is some Mahach6 variant.

I guess that in a few days, the mystery will be solved...