The Israeli military says it failed to provide security to Kibbutz Biri on October 7

The file said “serious mistakes and errors” were made in the military response when Hamas took over the country. It said the military was underprepared and did not always give priority to civilian life. This file colors how during the afternoon, Israel Defense Forces troops waited nearby while civilians were being killed.

It added, “Since the afternoon, forces had been waiting outside the kibbutz, while the massacre continued inside.” “The IDF did not carry out its mission to protect residents in the most serious manner and failed in its mission.”

Army officials offered the findings to the nation’s surviving contributors at the Lifeless Sea Hotel they now called home. A total of 101 people died in Biri – about a tenth of its population – as Hamas opponents from Gaza attacked through Israel’s high-tech border fence and surprised military equipment.

Dozens of people were taken hostage, 11 of whom have still not been released.

High above the border and deserted, unarmed national guardsmen and civilians were left fighting almost alone.

According to Israeli press reports, IDF spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, told civilians, “We failed to protect the kibbutz.” He said the IDF investigation fell short of a broader separate commission of inquiry, which he said “should be established.”

Nine months after the attack, the population is increasingly being held accountable for the historic breakdown in security that enabled Hamas-led militants to rampage through Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip. So far, some security leaders have resigned, and some political sectors’ fears of culpability seem far more sovereign.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly launched a separate commission without calling for a future in which Israel is at war. The IDF’s internal investigation will not go far in reducing population demands.

Tamar Herman, a senior research fellow at the Israel Self-Government Institute, said of the investigation, “It’s taken with a grain of salt.” “People expect some kind of official commission of inquiry made up of people who were not involved in any way.”

He said that even as the IDF has managed to partially restore its recognition in the view of many Israelis during the Gaza War, anger still runs deep in Berri.

“We should note that Kibbutz Beeri did not need the results of the investigation to realize the IDF’s failure every minute from 6:29 a.m. on that Black Shabbat,” the kibbutz said in a written observation. “The failure of the Army has been engraved on our bodies and hearts for the last nine months.”

This file depicts the chaos at the time of the attack, when about 340 militants entered the kibbutz, including about 100 anti-Nukhba anti-Hamas special forces.

The file states that small IDF equipment arriving at the kibbutz in the morning was “hit” and “knocked out of the network”. They established themselves at the gate and fought there while being hijacked by Hamas.

Meanwhile, members of the kibbutz’s security group took up positions in protest against the attack.

“In the first seven hours of the fighting, kibbutz residents defended themselves; “His actions and resourcefulness prevented the enemy from expanding the attack to additional neighborhoods,” the file said.

The kibbutz observation said the investigation contributed to revealing the intensity and complexity of the fighting in parts of Biri, although it added that the investigation could not provide adequate answers to “important questions”.

These questions come about why military forces remained gathered at the gate of the kibbutz for hours without entering, the root causes of the failure of the decision that approved the Hamas offensive and whether the arriving fighters understood what used to be their number one target. Providing security to citizens.

Rami Gold, a 70-year-old member of Biri’s security squad who tried to stop the militants at the time, said the military’s investigation had yielded little fresh data.

“From my perspective,” he said, “what they said is, ‘We abandoned you.'”

The idea has fallen apart, said Gould, who is probably one of the few citizens who has returned to live in Biri.

“The job of the military is to make us trust that,” he said. “Right now, that’s not the case. I have confidence in us.”

One of the most controversial IDF decisions of 7 October was to target the house of Pessi Cohen, where Hamas militants were hiding with 14 hostages.

Despite the presence of Israelis inside the house, Brig. General Barack Hiram, who had been assigned to direct the conflict at Biri that afternoon, decided to concentrate at home.

The IDF concluded that the tank firing was carried out in a “professional” manner with a joint decision made by commanders and then situational analysis “with the intention of putting pressure on the terrorists and rescuing the civilians held hostage inside”.

The file did not specify whether Israel’s infamous Hannibal directive had an impact on the generation. The directive instructs soldiers to devote their remaining energies to preventing the Israelis from being hijacked, even though it risks their lives.

The Haaretz newspaper reported this month that the Hannibal directive was implemented on October 7, with a message sent to troops at 11:22 a.m. that “not a single vehicle may return to Gaza.” According to the newspaper, this was one of several orders implementing the directive at that time.

The IDF has declined to say whether such a layout was provided. “Such questions will be considered at a later stage,” the IDF said Thursday.

The attack raised major questions and deep concerns among Israelis regarding the country’s decisions and defense objectives. Data emerged in August that an attack was imminent, but blackmail was brushed aside, as The Washington Post reported last year.

“You can’t just look at Biri,” said Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the analysis category at the IDF’s Military Decision Agency. “You can’t separate it from everything else that happened on that terrible day.”

According to an Israel Self-Government Institute poll conducted in April, a majority of Israelis – about 58 percent of Jewish and 81 percent of Arab voters – believe it is time to abdicate those responsible for the mistakes of October 7.

However, polarization in population sentiment is increasing. Left-wing and centrist Israelis are more likely to blame Netanyahu’s government, said Harman of the Israel Institute for Self-Government, pointing the finger at a future right-wing security establishment.

The scope of any investigation remains unclear, as does the structure involved, he said.

“There is no consensus on what should be done and as time goes on more disagreements arise,” he said.

Israeli delegation returned home from Doha, Qatar on Thursday For additional consultation, then participating in ceasefire talks, in line with the post of Prime Minister. The group will fly to Cairo overnight for further discussions. On the other hand, a statement issued by Hamas said that it was not a celebration of the new era.

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights activist, has condemned the Israeli military’s directive to all Palestinians to evacuate Gaza City as “complete madness”. It said “the international community must demand that Israel immediately end the war,” which it said has caused devastation and killed large numbers of people. A widespread IDF evacuation notification was issued on Wednesday.

Gaza’s civil defense forces said they recovered 60 bodies from the debris of Shejaiya in Gaza City. The communities, women and children among them, then retreated as Israeli forces retreated, a spokesman said. After the operation, which lasted several days, Mahmoud Bassal described Shakha as “unfit for life”.

At least 38,345 people have been killed and 88,295 injured in Gaza since the fighting began. Gaza Fitness Ministry said. It does not distinguish between civilians and protesters but says most of the dead were women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’ October 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and it says 325 soldiers have been killed since the beginning of its military campaign in Gaza.

Lior Soroka and Hazem Balousha contributed to this file.