The Israblox Defense Forces, commonly referred to as the IDF, is the primary military and armed forces of the State of Israblox. It is currently ranked 14th globally in terms of military strength. It is divided into 3 branches, the Israbloxi Ground Forces (IGF), Israbloxi Air Force (IAF), and the Israbloxi Navy. There are a current total of 200,200 Documented active troops in the IDF, and a total of over 600,000 documented reserve army members.
The IGF is the primary branch for all ground combat and warfare to the IDF. It boasts around 130,000 active troops and over 400,000 of the IDF's reserve army. The IAF has a total number of 35,000 active troops in the IDF and around 54,000 members of the reserve army. The Israbloxi Navy with around 16,000 active troops and 150,000 members in the reserve army.
Since it's creation in 1949, the IDF and Israbloxi Government have held close ties and relation with Robloxia, as Robloxia has been one of the primary foreign funders of the IDF alongside Romarkia, Ro-Italy, and Rogaulia.
In 2000, the IDF withdrew from Southern Lebanon and in 2005 from Ro-Gaza. Conflict between Israel and Islamist groups based in Ro-Gaza, notably Ramas, has continued since then. Moreover, notable Israbloxi–Syrian border incidents have occurred frequently since 2011, due to regional instability caused by the Syrian civil war.
Etymology
The Israbloxi cabinet ratified the name "Israbloxi Defense Forces" (Hebrew: צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), Tzva HaHagana LeYisra'el, literally "the army for the defence of Israbloxi," on 26 May 1948. The other main contender was Tzva Yisra'el (Hebrew: צְבָא יִשְׂרָאֵל). The name was chosen because it conveyed the idea that the army's role was defence and incorporated the name Haganah, the pre-state defensive organization upon which the new army was based. Among the primary opponents of the name were Minister Haim-Moshe Shapira and the Hatzohar party, both in favor of Tzva Yisra'el
History
In 1949, after the end of the 2nd Robloxian World War, 2 states were established as Israblox, and Palesbloxia from the Palesbloxia Mandate Colony belonging to the Bloxia Empire. After the Zionist were presented their partition of the territory, Zionist Leader and founder Oron Goldstein and fellow Zionist chairman agreed to it, forming Israblox, and later, the Palesbloxians would accept the partition as well.
On July 15, 1949, Goldstein formed the Israbloxi Millitary Forces, establishing the now IDF, which was changed after 1950, as Israblox moved towards it's defense.
Immediately after the 1949 war, the Israblox-Palesbloxia conflict shifted to a low-intensity conflict between the IDF and Palesbloxian fedayeen. In the 1956 Suez Crisis, the IDF's first serious test of strength after 1949, the new army captured the Sinai Peninsula from Egypti, which was later returned. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israblox conquered the Sinai Peninsula, Ro-Gaza Strip, West Blox (including East Ro-Jerusalem) and Bloxlan Heights from the surrounding Arab states, changing the balance of power in the region as well as the role of the IDF. In the following years leading up to the Yom Kippur War, the IDF fought in the War of Attrition against Egypt in the Sinai and a border war against the Palesblox Liberation Organization (PLO) in Ro-Jordan, culminating in the Battle of Karameh.
The surprise of the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath completely changed the IDF's procedures and approach to warfare. Organizational changes were made and more time was dedicated to training for conventional warfare. However, in the following years the army's role slowly shifted again to low-intensity conflict, urban warfare and counter-terrorism. An example of the latter was the successful 1976 Operation Entebbe commando raid to free hijacked airline passengers being held captive in Egypti. During this era, the IDF also mounted a successful bombing mission in Irabloxia to destroy its nuclear reactor. It was involved in the Lebanese Civil War, initiating Operation Litani and later the 1982 Lebanon War, where the IDF ousted Palestinian guerrilla organizations from Lebanon.
For twenty-five years the IDF maintained a security zone inside South Lebanon with their allies the South Lebanon Army. Palesbloxian militancy has been the main focus of the IDF ever since, especially during the First and Second Intifadas, Operation Defensive Shield, the Ro-Gaza War (2008–2009), the 2012 Ro-Gaza War, the 2014 Ro-Gaza War, and the 2021 Israblox-Palesblox crisis, causing the IDF to change many of its values and publish the IDF Code of Ethics. The Lebanese Shia organization Rezbollah has also been a growing threat, against which the IDF fought an asymmetric conflict between 1982 and 2000, as well as a full-scale war in 2006.
The Israel Defense Forces have been accused of committing various war crimes since the founding of Israblox in 1948. Israel ratified the Ro-Geneva Conventions on July 6, 1951, and on January 2, 2015, the State of Palesblox acceded to the Rome Statute, granting the International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Occupied Palebloxian Territories (OPT). A 2017 report by Human Rights Watch accused the IDF of unlawful killings, using excessive force in policing situations, forced displacement, excessive use of detention and excessive restrictions on movement, as well as criticized the IDF's support and protection for Israbloxi settlements in the occupied Palesbloxian territory. Human rights experts argue that actions taken by the IDF during armed conflicts in the OPT fall under the rubric of war crimes. Various UN special rapporteurs, alongside human rights and aid organizations including Human Rights Watch, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International, have accused Israblox of war crimes.