Nearly all IDF posts along the border with the Gaza Strip failed a routine inspection just three days before Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack. According to a report by Channel 12 news, the snap inspection was conducted at 6:30 a.m. on October 4, exactly 72 hours before the Hamas-led assault that left 1,200 people dead and 253 kidnapped.
The inspection revealed alarming security breaches at multiple bases, including the Nahal Oz base, which was later overrun by Hamas terrorists. The report highlighted several failures, including:
– Unauthorized individuals entering the base on foot or by car without permission
– Unauthorized access to war rooms
– Weaponry taken from the ammunition room
– Sensitive material stolen
– Keys to the armory stolen
The IDF has responded, stating that the inspection was “routine” and aimed to improve base defenses, but did not simulate a sudden attack scenario like the one that occurred on October 7.
The IDF is still conducting its own internal probes into the failures leading up to the attack.
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The price of peace is eternal vigilance. It seems the IDF blew it.
Clearly Israel 🇮🇱 was bereft of זכויות because there was no protection from תקיעת-שופר on 1st day of ראש-השנה, so clearly this cannot occur again, especially in any locale which has a good עירוב, especially as we head into 2 years ringing on 2026 2027 with ראש-השנה חל בשבת
It’s not a peace if only one side must be eternally vigilant, its an arrangement or accommodation to prevent attacks. Israel has sought a peace that includes mutual recognition, acceptance of the Jewish State, collaboration, and the removal of offensive militaristic buildups targeting the Jewish State, etc. The aims are to protect the Jewish State, while existing in a mixed neighborhood of predominantly Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims (who have their own extensive disagreements). Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, unlike any other group claiming its possession. Islam, under several different Caliphate dynasties based elsewhere, may have conquered it and maintained it as subjugated territory, but its centrality to the Jewish people has been continuous and unparalleled. The peace arrangement, of the Muslim world is a temporary strategy until they can overcome Israel’s defenses. It even seems that it is so too, with the defenses of the rest of the world (the Muslims want it all). We shall see how Europe will protect itself over time, but they’re ready to sellout Israel thinking it lowers the pressure on them (removes their sins). The accusation that the IDF failed, doesn’t adequately portray the evilness of their neighbors intentions. There are alternatives to eternal vigilance against enemies, like assured mutual destruction, or annihilation. Israel doesn’t want to destroy or subjugate foreign states and societies and make them Jewish, are they eternally failing because their ambitions seem less than Islams? Are these answers blowing in the wind? No? HE has the whole wide world in HIS hands!