Roni Eshel was afraid when he sat in front or his surveillance monitors, at 4 in the morning of October 7, 2023? Fearful of being on the front line, while satting just 850 meters from the gaza strip, in barracks that had the leg in half empty, since they were the Jewish holidays or Simchat Torah. Eyal Eshel, his father, will never know. That morning, around 6:30 am, the terrorists of the Palestinian enclave launched an assault on the Israeli military base of Nahal Oz, as well as the Kibutz of the same name. On foot, in trucks or motorcycles, 215 men advanced, in three successive waves, against the base and their sleeping soldiers, where the battle quickly became a massacre.
Fifty -three of the 162 soldiers present, many of them young people who performed their military service were killed in a few hours. Most were by surprise and were still in pajamas. Ten soldiers were among the hostage tasks for Gaza, where two tanks are still in captivity. As for Roni, the 19 -year -old look was burned alive in his command post, along with several of his squad colleagues and some non -commissioned officers, including a Bedouin explorer who stayed to defend women soldiers until the end.
This tragedy, which is one of the most obvious symptoms of the weaknesses of the Israeli army, highlighted several negligence incidents, each nested within the next. The first, of course, was the intentional blindness of the High Command, since he had convinced that Hamas would never have the operational capacity to carry out a large -scale operation, just after having discovered an attack plan devised by the coded “,,,,,,,, oh the imminent catastrophe.
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