On Thursday, the IDF presented residents of Kibbutz Be'eri the findings of its investigation into the conduct of the combat in the kibbutz on October 7 and the following day, during which 101 local residents and visitors were killed and 30 more were kidnapped to Gaza.
"The IDF failed in its mission to defend the residents of Be'eri," the report says. "The army was not prepared for a scenario of a mass penetration into Israel, like on October 7, that included multiple points of entry through which thousands of terrorists entered, and dozens of fronts where they attacked."
🔗SOURCE ➡️ Haaretz
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Also in May, Haaretz published an investigation that described the IDF ran an exercise simulating a Hamas border assault, in a similar manner to what was seen on Oct 7th…and the exercise exposed to the IDF how the Israeli army was unprepared to respond to such a border assault.
Most importantly, rather than running the exercise over until the IDF felt confident on how to respond to such an attack, military leadership shifted to focusing on preparing for Hamas missile attacks.
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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an investigation on 9 May, providing further details of the alleged intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to launch Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October successfully.
The investigation concluded that leaders in the army refused to consider or prepare for the possibility of a Hamas ground invasion of Israel and instead focused on the threat from Hamas missile attacks. ....
Haaretz states that during the Hamas attack on 7 October, the “border fence was revealed to be semi-imaginary” and that fighters from Hamas’ elite Nukhba brigade breached it at 44 different points.
According to the Haaretz report, the Israeli army held two exercises in previous years to prepare for the possibility of Hamas breaching the border before the fence’s completion.
The first was in 2016 and involved responding to a Hamas raid that would use cars, motorcycles, and paragliders to breach the fence into Israel and then move toward the southern settlements (kibbutzim), around which army soldiers were deployed.
However, a security source who participated in the exercise stated that it was soon stopped without any clear plan to prevent such an attack.
“After a few hours, Edelstein decided to stop when the ‘enemy’ had already reached the Ad Halom junction in the north [near Ashdod] and others had reached Kiryat Gat in the south – without the Southern Command and the Gaza Division knowing how to respond,” the source said.
Despite the failure of the exercise, the army leadership opposed holding a second training in 2019 and insisted on focusing on Hamas’ missile capabilities.
Any officers warning of a possible Hamas ground invasion were either ignored or ridiculed...
So essentially, the IDF had run a training exercise involving Hamas breaching the border using cars, motorcycles, and paragliders - as they had on October 7th, and the training exercise the IDF conducted in 2016 exposed the fact that the Israeli military did not have an adequate plan to respond to such an attack…and instead of working on the scenario / exercise to patch the vulnerability, the Israeli military leadership chose to focus only on preparing for a missile attack, despite the fact that the exercise of a ground invasion revealed how Israel was unprepared to deal with a ground invasion……
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