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The Turning Point: Ethan Klein’s Rout at Be’er Harod and the Collapse of Parker’s Counteroffensive By Orli Sasson, Senior Military Correspondent – Haaretz Historical Review (Published: May 9, 2025)

In the long and blood-soaked timeline of the Third Intifada—by then no longer mere insurgency but a full conventional war between the State of Israel and the Unified Palestinian Command—few moments stand out so starkly as the Battle of Be’er Harod in April 2025. It was here that General Ethan Klein, commander of the Israeli Northern Expeditionary Force, not only repelled a meticulously coordinated counteroffensive by Palestinian General Hasan Parker but routed his entire southern spearhead with a precision that stunned even Klein’s detractors. The battle also marked the spectacular unraveling of a betrayal plotted from within: the failed treachery of Colonel Ian Jomha, an Israeli Druze officer whose defection was expected to break Klein’s lines—but instead shattered the command structure of Parker’s offensive.

The Setup: A Calculated Betrayal

Throughout the early months of 2025, Parker’s forces had been quietly regrouping in the central highlands under the nominal cover of ceasefire negotiations in Geneva. Meanwhile, Klein’s expeditionary forces had entrenched in a salient east of the Jordan Rift, a precarious but symbolically vital position. Both sides knew that if Parker could breach the Israeli salient, he could open the way to the Galilee and potentially encircle Haifa from the east—a move that would’ve been a decisive blow.

Enter Colonel Ian Jomha, a high-ranking logistics and engineering officer with intimate knowledge of Klein’s eastern fortifications. Secretly courted by Parker’s intelligence bureau—most historians now attribute the recruitment to the elusive operative codenamed “Anisa”—Jomha was promised a senior position in a new postwar Palestinian-Israeli security compact. His assignment was to sabotage a key ridge outpost and delay Israeli armored response by scrambling their supply route coordination, thus opening a corridor for Parker’s 4th Armored Corps to plunge through.

The plan, by all accounts, was ambitious. And it very nearly worked.

The Collapse: Klein’s Decoy and Jomha’s Folly

Unknown to Jomha, Klein’s counterintelligence staff—led by the infamously meticulous Colonel Hila Klein—had already suspected a mole among their ranks. Decrypts from Parker’s own SIGINT division (thanks to a rare Mossad intercept weeks prior) had pointed to “a saboteur within the outer logistics net.” When Klein learned it might be Jomha, he did not arrest him. Instead, he fed Jomha precisely what Parker’s handlers wanted him to see: maps, timing schedules, and force disposition charts—all subtly altered.

On April 16, 2025, Jomha triggered the signal that the outpost had been sabotaged. In truth, Klein had quietly withdrawn the garrison and rigged the area for remote demolition. As Parker’s armored spearhead began its assault under the belief of a compromised enemy, Klein detonated the ridge—collapsing the corridor—and unleashed a pincer movement from the north and south involving two reserve brigades and the experimental UAV "Harel" wing that had been kept off ISR radar.

Caught in a killbox and unable to retreat quickly over the winding wadis, Parker’s forces were pummeled by coordinated air and artillery strikes for 48 straight hours. What remained of the 4th Armored was abandoned on the highlands’ edge—vehicles still smoldering days later when reporters first reached the site.

As for Colonel Jomha, he was found alive but stunned, holed up in an abandoned medical checkpoint near the ridge. Parker’s forces had left him behind in the rout.

Aftermath: The Strategic and Political Ripples

The defeat at Be’er Harod broke the momentum of the Palestinian counteroffensive for good. Within six weeks, Klein’s forces had pushed as far south as Jericho. More importantly, the betrayal and abandonment of Jomha demoralized pro-Parker cells within Israel’s Arab communities, many of whom had been watching the general with growing skepticism after reports of internal purges.

Internationally, Parker’s standing among his Gulf allies—already wavering after failed promises of a swift northern victory—collapsed. Funding from Doha and Ankara slowed dramatically. Jomha, after weeks in Israeli custody, was later tried in military court. The trial was closed, the sentence undisclosed, but sources later confirmed he had been quietly relocated under special intelligence agreements—his current whereabouts unknown.

General Ethan Klein’s reputation soared after Be’er Harod. Once dismissed as overly academic and unfit for field command, the victory cemented his image as both cunning and ruthlessly adaptive. His memoir The Ridge Gambit remains required reading at the Israeli Command College.

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