Greta, Greta, Greta !!!, page-71

"they wanted the attack to justify the ethnic cleansing and land grab now still underway."

Another stupid remark by another ignorant person. ( Are you another HC Jew hater ?)
You need a dose of the truth

Israel’s military admits it delayed entering kibbutz as Hamas attacked


Israel’s military admits it delayed entering kibbutz as Hamas attacked First report into IDF’s conduct on October 7 acknowledges failure to aid community amid assault by 340 militants An Israeli soldier inspects a destroyed house in Kibbutz Be’eri after the attack on October 7 last year, in which more than 100 residents died © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa Israel’s military admits it delayed entering kibbutz as Hamas attacked on x (opens in a new window) Israel’s military admits it delayed entering kibbutz as Hamas attacked on facebook (opens in a new window) Israel’s military admits it delayed entering kibbutz as Hamas attacked.
Israel’s military has admitted its forces delayed entering a kibbutz for several hours as Hamas militants rampaged through the community on October 7, in its first investigation into its own conduct on the day of the attacks. The Israel Defense Forces said its troops took hours to arrive and in several cases “gathered at the entrance to the kibbutz and did not engage in immediate combat” as the Palestinian militants killed more than 100 of the 1,000 residents and took another 30 as hostages into Gaza. Local security teams were left to fend for themselves against about 340 Hamas fighters for a total of seven hours after Hamas’s initial early-morning raid and seizure of the kibbutz in southern Israel, it said. The report, led by several retired Israeli officers, focused solely on the military response to Hamas’s attack on Be’eri, one of the southern Israeli communities worst hit during Hamas’s cross-border assault that triggered the war in Gaza. “Forces outside the kibbutz were waiting, while inside the kibbutz the killing spree continued. This situation is extremely grave and must not occur,” Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military chief of staff, concluded in the report. Some of the forces misunderstood “the seriousness of the situation” because of a lack of available intelligence and effective command and control by senior officers, Halevi added. “We must clarify a clear directive: in such a situation, all forces must enter the conflict area and do everything they can to stop the massacre of civilians,” he wrote. The attack began shortly after 6.30am local time, but only in the afternoon did the IDF task a senior officer, Brigadier General Barak Hiram, with overall command of the area. After that, about 700 Israeli security personnel began retaking control of the kibbutz and evacuating residents. In total, 34 members of the military were killed during the battle, while Israel estimates that about 100 Hamas fighters were killed. The report admitted that it took Israel until the following afternoon, on October 8, to fully clear the community of Hamas fighters. A total of 11 Be’eri residents remain in captivity in Gaza. In a conclusion that may prove controversial among Be’eri survivors, the investigation appeared to clear Hiram of wrongdoing after he ordered IDF tanks to fire into a house where Hamas militants were holding 14 Israelis hostage. Only two of those hostages survived the incident. They later told Israeli television they believed that IDF tank shells had caused the Israeli deaths, but the IDF investigation rejected that claim. “It appears that most of the hostages were murdered by the terrorists and that it is necessary to continue to perform additional tests and examine additional findings as much as possible,” the report said. It said commanders on the scene, including Hiram, “made professional and responsible decisions” after efforts to negotiate failed and they feared for the lives of the hostages. The Be’eri community said in a statement that it welcomed the “thorough” IDF investigation, stressing the importance of the military taking responsibility “for the complete failure to protect us, and in asking for forgiveness for our neglect for so many hours in which we were under the attack of an evil that has no equal”. The community demanded that the Israeli government form an official state commission of inquiry to investigate the overall failures before and during October 7. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to take such a step, although his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said in a speech on Thursday that he supported setting up such a commission. Instead, the Israeli military has launched its own investigations, with the Be’eri report the first to be released. The response to the atrocity at Be’eri is viewed as a microcosm of the Israeli security establishment’s larger intelligence and operational collapse, and its failure to prepare for a widescale assault from Gaza by thousands of Hamas fighters. Halevi, the military chief, said the inquiry “clearly illustrates the magnitude of the failure and the scale of the disaster that befell the residents of the south who defended their families with their bodies for many hours while the IDF was not there to protect them”. Three senior IDF officers, including the head of military intelligence, have resigned over failures surrounding October 7, the worst loss of life in Israel’s history. Israel launched its assault on Gaza after Hamas’s October attack, during which militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages in total, according to Israeli officials. A total of 116 Israelis and foreign nationals remain in captivity. Israel’s offensive has killed more than 38,000 people, according to authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory, and fuelled a humanitarian catastrophe in the coastal enclave.