Shlomi Ohaion and volunteers from here and abroad are busy preparing food for IDF soldiers stationed outside the Gaza Strip.
Despite Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza, and with the government in Lebanon, organizations and individual volunteers who have been supporting Israel Defense Forces soldiers since Oct. 7, 2023, insist the war is not over, and therefore the troops still need a large amount of backing.
Shlomi Ohaion, a disabled IDF veteran who has been operating a volunteer food truck, feeding hundreds of soldiers a day along the Gaza border since the start of the war, told JNS on Thursday that he is busier than ever.
Inching his pickup truck up to an IDF post where troops were securing the border in the Eshkol region, he stopped to hand out falafel and shakshuka sandwiches to the soldiers. Gesturing toward an IDF tank being towed on a flatbed truck, he asked this reporter, “Do you see that tank crossing into Gaza? How can anyone say the war is over, as long as our soldiers are in Gaza and not at home?”