The report stated the army was unprepared and responded slowly to the assault whereas preventing was uncoordinated.
The Israeli army has acknowledged that it failed to guard the Kibbutz Be’eri neighborhood throughout the Hamas-led assault on October 7, in its first investigation into its personal safety failures on the day of the assaults.
Greater than 100 folks had been killed within the assault on Be’eri, a neighborhood of about 1,000 folks, and 32 had been taken captive to Gaza, 11 of whom are nonetheless detained there.
The army stated Thursday the investigation examined the day’s chain of occasions, the preventing and the conduct of safety forces.
Whereas acknowledging its personal failure to guard civilians on the kibbutz, the army praised the bravery of Be’eri residents, together with its fast response group.
The Israeli army was not ready for the state of affairs of a large infiltration of Hamas fighters into Israel, didn’t have enough forces within the space, didn’t have a transparent image of occasions till noon, a number of hours after the assault started, didn’t adequately alert Be’eri residents and its preventing was not coordinated, the investigation discovered.
The investigation, nonetheless, discovered no blame for the firing of a tank right into a home the place fighters had been holding about 15 folks captive, an incident that has drawn criticism in Israel for placing civilians at risk.
“After gunshots had been heard from the home and the terrorists introduced their intention to kill themselves and the hostages, the forces determined to storm the home to avoid wasting the hostages,” the army abstract stated.
“The group discovered that civilians inside the home weren’t injured by tank shells,” the abstract says, however argues that additional investigation is required to find out how the hostages inside died, with indicators pointing to them being killed by the gunmen.
Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday known as for a state investigation into safety failures within the Oct. 7 assault.
He stated the inquiry ought to look into Gallant himself and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has rejected earlier calls to type a state fee of inquiry.
The army introduced its report back to residents of Be’eri, a lot of whom are among the many tens of hundreds of Israelis nonetheless displaced because the Oct. 7 assault that precipitated Israel’s battle on Gaza.
“I didn’t want all these particulars,” stated Miri Gad Mesika, a member of the kibbutz. “What I care about is why what occurred occurred, how we will stop it from taking place once more, how we will get our hostages again and the way we will really feel protected once more.”
