Be’eri security team member told PM ‘hundreds of fighters here’ at 11 a.m. on Oct. 7
Elam Maor spoke by phone with Netanyahu, who told him, ‘We’ll deal with it’; IOF arrived at 1:30 p.m.; Hamas took 32 prisoners, killed 132 at the kibbutz.

Netanyahu, said Elam Maor, assured him the situation would be dealt with.

Maor recounted the conversation in a Channel 12 interview on Thursday evening following the publication of the IOF’s probe into what happened in Be’eri during the Hamas resistance group’s onslaught that day.

"Somehow you managed to get through to Netanyahu, at around 11 in the morning on that Sabbath, in a telephone call,” news anchor Danny Kushmaro marveled.

“It happened,” Maor replied.

Kushmaro: “And you told him, ‘We need help?'”

Maor: “Be’eri is alone. Be’eri is abandoned. There are hundreds of fighters here.”

Kushmaro: “And he tells you, something like, ‘It’s okay, the IOF is on the way?'”

Maor: “Not, ‘It’s okay’. He says, ‘We’ll deal with it.’ It was 11 o’clock, and the incident was a long way from being dealt with. In fact, the additional military forces arrived at Be’eri at 1:30 [p.m.].”

Kushmaro: “In retrospect, would you have told him something different?”

Maor: “I think that was the most accurate thing I could say… We were there at Be’eri alone for many hours.”

Maor commended the IOF for acknowledging and detailing its failures in Thursday’s probe, and insisted that a state commission of inquiry into the events leading up to and on October 7 was essential. Tactical and strategic lessons must be learned, he said.

Israeli media.

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🔴Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet, in an interview with a French satellite channel:

Hamas cannot be defeated militarily, and when Netanyahu talks about absolute victory and eliminating Hamas, I know better... As long as Netanyahu remains in power, there will be no peace, and we will not have security.

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Two girls were martyred as a result of the targeting of a house belonging to the Al-Rai family in the vicinity of the Jaffa Mosque in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

https://t.iss.one/warfareanalysis/63013

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Casualties from the targeting of the al-Rai family home arriving at Al-Asqa Martyrs Hospital.
So many children