Reported: 08:36 AM - Apr/06/09

(IsraelNN.com) GOC Central Command Gadi Shamni presented an Israel Defense Forces officer and three soldiers, all from the Duvdevan Special Forces unit, with a citation on Sunday for avoiding innocent civilian injuries during clashes with Arab fugitives in the densely crowded Nablus casbah.

In one incident the officer and soldiers broke into a house as fugitives they were pursuing opened fired and fled through a tunnel. They wounded him without hurting his wife who was with him.