Investigation: This is how the Israeli army failed to protect “Nir Oz” on October 7

Occupied Jerusalem- October 7, 2023, at 5:34, a voice message was received on the military communications network and the guard team “Golani” brigadeThe Jewish population in the region reassures, and announced that the forces raised a state of alert and alert according to the orders used and evaluating the situation.

The message reflected the catastrophic failure to prevent the battle of “The Flood of Al -Aqsa”, as it turned out that all the military forces, including the “Gaza Band”, were completely unaware of Hamas’s attacks, according to the newspaper “Haaretz”, which reviewed the most prominent axes of failure and failure in the collapse of the military leadership and the fall of Kibbutz “Nir Oz” in the hands of Palestinian resistance fighters for more than 6 hours.

Kissovim’s words on the communications network, according to Yanif Copovic, a military affairs correspondent of “Haaretz”, indicate that he and the other forces in the Strip did not know that within 55 minutes thousands of Palestinian resistance fighters would sneak into Israeli territory.

The fall of “Nir Oz”

At 06:49, the first resistance fighters entered the Kibbutz from the northern gate, then from the “Kerm” gate and the southern gate, and the beginning of the income of 100-130 fighters from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and in the peak 300-500 fighters from different organizations, and after minutes, the first clash and exchange of fire began, in “Nir Oz”, isolated from the Israeli forces.

The exchange of fire continued between the members of the guard division and the elite forces (from the resistance) more than two hours, after which the Kibbutz fell in the hands of the resistance fighters, and at 09:22, it reached, for the first time, a fighting helicopter of the Israeli Air Force and attacked the southern axis leading from Gaza Strip To the Kibbutz, where dozens of resistance fighters were gathered.

According to “Haaretz”, the Israeli army did not know the fall of “Nir Oz”, as the helicopter was asked by wireless contact with Israeli lands, but due to its low flight, the resistance fighters were caused by their fire on the outskirts of Kibbutz, and it made an emergency landing.

As the battles continued when the “Nir Oz” brokers, there were 4 other sorties of Israeli war helicopters, which opened fire on the area and wounded a number of resistance fighters, and a number of detained Kibbutz residents were also killed.

The Israeli newspaper continues that the matter was not limited to attacking the axis and the Kibbutz area, when 09:45, reports were received via the communications network and the regional council leaders group “Eshkol”, about burning homes in “Nir Oz”, and after minutes, a tank reached the Kibbutz gate and reported that there are resistance fighters at the entrance, before they were able to detonate it.

The occupation forces arrived at the scene at 13:10, about 40 minutes after the last identification of the identity of the Hamas fighters and the Islamic Jihad movement, but they did not find any of them, and in the evening, other forces joined the inspection and rescue operations.

“Failure to fail”

“Haaretz” says that the Palestinian resistance fighters clashed more than 6 hours with the members of the guard division, killed them and captured about a quarter of the population, and during those hours no soldier entered the Kibbutz, and the Israeli army did not know what was happening there.

There was also no battle in “Nir Oz”, who received the most painful and shocking strike, and “this was a failure, as part of the failure of the seventh of October,” according to Herzi Halevi’s admission of the outgoing chief of staff, during the presentation of the results of the military investigation into the sudden attack, according to the newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”.

The results of the investigations in the sudden attack on “Nir Oz” showed that the occupation army failed to reach the Kibbutz, where the day of the attack was 386 people, and during the clashes 41 of the military and civil settlers, and the capture of 76 others, 14 of whom were still detained in Hamas.

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According to investigations that Joav Zaitoun, the military affairs correspondent of “Yediot Aharonot”, the Israeli security leadership collapsed completely and lost control, and that the military forces in “Nir Oz” did not come to protect the settlers who requested their help by all available means, but they were left alone to confront the elite forces’ attack.

Zaytoun quoted the investigation team as saying that “the failure of the Israeli army not to reach Nir Oz is not tactical or moral, but rather is a methodology, as the military leaders did not understand that the situation was difficult, and priority was not given to send the forces there at the expense of other places.”

The team stated that “the collapse of leadership and control systems, especially in the Gaza Brigade and the Gaza Brigade, is a major factor in the failure of building a real image and evaluation of the situation, and it was expected that the General Staff would seek to extract a real situation, and not only rely on the intelligence reports that it turned out to be incorrect and misleading.”

The investigation team tried to answer 4 main questions in the investigation of the failure and systematic failure during the attack; What is the sequence of events? And why did this large number of resistance fighters reach Nir Oz? And why did the battalion in the sector fail to stop the militants? And why did the reserve forces not arrive at the appropriate time to change the situation, and the team added, “If a warning was directed, even if it was short, it would have been possible to reduce the damage.”

The investigation shows – according to Yediot – that the 51st Battalion was not properly prepared for a seventh -sized scenario of October and did not receive any warning, and its leadership chain collapsed with less than an hour, and its fighters were unable to gather to conduct an organized evaluation of the situation, and it had to cooperate with the guard teams at the cover settlements to understand the truth of the situation.

The authors of the investigation indicated that the failure of the military leadership centers to understand the difficult situation, and the fact that they were in an attack, and the collapse of the leadership from the level of the brigade and the battalion to the division level, and concluded that “the preparations that took place on Saturday – before the attack – are routine, not preparations for the war, and there were no units inhabited by emergency cases.”