#Nahal Oz

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How Hamas Overran an Israeli Military Base on October 7

On October 7, one year after the devastating Hamas attacks, Israel continues to confront tough questions regarding the deadliest day in its history. The Nahal Oz military base, located near the Gaza border, was swiftly overrun by Hamas gunmen, resulting in the deaths of over 60 Israeli soldiers and several being taken hostage.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have yet to release an official inquiry into the events of that day, but they have briefed families of the deceased, who shared crucial details with the BBC. Survivors' accounts, messages from the fallen, and real-time radio communications shed light on the rapidity and brutality of the invasion.

Key findings indicate:

Soldiers had noticed suspicious activities leading up to the attack, but there was an unexpected lull in Hamas activity days prior.

Many troops at the base were unarmed due to protocols mandating them to stand back during attacks, rather than advance.

Some surveillance equipment was either inoperable or easily destroyed by Hamas.

Questions arise over the lack of armed personnel at such a critical location, the inadequate response to intelligence warnings, delays in reinforcements, and whether the base's infrastructure compromised the safety of its defenders.

In the early morning hours, soldiers at the base observed unusual movements but misinterpreted them as routine. At approximately 6:20 AM, Hamas launched rockets, which did not initially seem alarming due to previous experiences with brief attacks. However, the onslaught escalated quickly.

The IDF's failure to act decisively was attributed to overconfidence in their defenses, which proved vulnerable. Within minutes, breaches in the border fence allowed Hamas fighters to infiltrate Israeli territory. Reports indicate that an observation balloon meant to monitor the area was out of service that day, compounding the vulnerability of the base.

As chaos ensued, soldiers struggled to comprehend the severity of the situation. Despite receiving radio transmissions indicating an attack, confusion and miscommunication hindered an effective response.

As the attack unfolded, soldiers were met with armed Hamas fighters, who overpowered defenses and caused significant casualties. The attack raised critical concerns regarding Israel’s preparedness and response capabilities in the face of unexpected aggression.

As investigations continue, the Nahal Oz incident serves as a poignant reminder of the vulnerabilities faced by military installations even in areas perceived as secure.

[mounadiloun]

Avant le 7 octobre 2023, il y eut le 6 octobre 1946

Tout a commencé le 7 octobre 2023 si on en croit la vulgate sioniste reprise généralement implicitement par la plupart des médias occidentaux. Il y a eu avant le 7 une période où chacun vivait sa petite vie paisiblement, les Palestniens dans la bande de Gaza, malheureusement sous la férule du Hamas, une bande d’antisémites avides de sang juif, et les Juifs (sionistes) dans leurs petites villes ou…

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Publication autorisée : la vidéo de la captivité de l'observatrice Daniela Gilboa a été publiée

La famille de l’observatrice kidnappée de Nahal Oz, Daniela Gilboa, a approuvé la publication du signe de vie qu’elle a reçu d’elle il y a environ six mois, le 107ème jour de la guerre. “Je n’ai besoin ni de nourriture, ni d’argent, ni de vêtements, ni de rien, juste que tu nous ramènes vivants à la maison”, déclare Gilboa dans la vidéo. “Je suis sous les bombes et les tirs 24 heures sur 24 et…

[johnlatter]

Hamas make 12 year-old Israeli watch atrocity videos - Why?

A revenge for the terrorists own lives being internally destroyed, perhaps...

Forcing Eitan Yahalomi to watch the footage may have been designed to induce psychological distress akin to what the terrorists themselves experienced in the years of post-trauma* rote learning and indoctrination that made up their childhood . 

Indoctrination leads to accumulated repression that can triggered by pre-programmed keywords and concepts resulting in outbursts of unnatural violence, a characteristic of the type of atrocities the Palestine terrorists from Gaza committed in Israel on the 7th of October 2023. On November the 29th 2023, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported that 12 year-old Eitan Yahalomi had been kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nahal Oz during the massacre on the first day of the war and had finally been released on November the 27th:

The truth about Hamas's treatment of hostages If previous hostage releases that took place this past week created the impression that Hamas is treating the Israeli hostages who are being held captive in the Gaza Strip well, Eitan's testimony depicts an entirely different reality. In an interview with the French news outlet BFM, [his aunt, Deborah Cohen] said that after speaking with Eitan, it was clear to her that he went through "terrible things" while in captivity. Hamas forced him to watch the uncensored October 7 documentary released by the IDF, she said.

The 12-year-old watched about 45 minutes of footage that portrays evidence of the gruesome attack carried out by Hamas terrorists. Many of the scenes take place in Nahal Oz where Eitan is from.

"They forced him and other children to watch it: the entire movie. Whenever another child would cry during the screening, they would threaten them with a rifle to silence them," Cohen explained.

"[They] would beat him," she said. 

"He is a 12-year-old boy: We are talking about a 12-year-old," his aunt said. "Maybe I am naive, but I did not expect to hear such descriptions. I wanted to hold onto the hope that he was treated well, but that was not the case. They are monsters."

*The childhood trauma in question is the archeotrauma (alt. archaeotrauma), the wound human beings, horses, and other animals sustain when their spirit is "broken".

Also see Evolution and Psychology Research.

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AI image (artificial intelligence) showing an Israeli boy hostage being held in the Gaza Strip watching a television that has an Hamas terrorist on the screen.

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By RICHARD FERRER IN KFAR AZA

Eight months before Machmud arrived at Batia Holin’s home to kill her, the two had jointly launched an exhibition aimed at promoting peace and unity between Israelis and Palestinians.

After connecting through a Facebook group for residents on the Israel-Gaza border, the pair spent months sharing pictures on WhatsApp of daily life from both sides of the fence. This seemingly heartfelt exchange blossomed into a poignant exhibition entitled Between Us, dedicated to bridging the divide. Due to the dire risks involved, they never spoke directly. ‘Normalisation’ (interacting with Jews) is the most serious crime a Gazan can commit.

“We didn’t discuss politics,” Batia tells me as we walk along the Gaza barrier fence on the outskirts of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where Machmud – who told her he was a 28-year-old photographer from the Gazan town of Shuja’iyya – was one of 300 Hamas terrorists who breached the border on the morning of October 7 and entered her kibbutz.

The 71-year-old, who has lived on the kibbutz for more than 50 years, has dedicated her life to coexistence. The idea of collaborating with a Palestinian across the border, someone who experienced the same sights and sounds yet lived a vastly different reality, deeply resonated with her sense of purpose.

“Machmud and I wanted to show the world that, despite the circumstances in which we live, we share the same hope for a brighter future. That despite the obstacles, most people on both sides of the fence just want to live in peace.”

Batia Holin beside a banner displaying pictures of hostages from Kibbutz Kfar Aza that remain in captivity.

Their exhibition opened in Israel on 4 February 2023 in nearby Kibbutz Nahal Oz (where 14 people were killed and seven abducted), with plans for it to tour the United States. One of its most striking exhibits was photographs of the Mediterranean Sea, showing the same beach border from opposite perspectives: one looking north, the other south.

Machmud was, of course, unable to be there in person, so he wrote Batia a touching email: “I hope this project will influence and improve understanding, quality of life and security on both sides of the fence. I hope that with the help of my photos, Israeli society and the whole world will know that the Gaza Strip is not only a place of rockets and missiles but a place worth living in. I hope that with the help of my photos, Israeli society will see that in Gaza the people are simple, love life and are not fighters and terrorists. This exhibition, for me, is hope for a peaceful life.”

Batia at her Between Us exhibition

Today, in the wake of such unimaginable brutality, Batia’s dreams seem heartbreakingly naïve. Her faith has been so profoundly shattered that she fears there may not be a single adult in Gaza who shares her vision of peace. “The hardest feeling is the sense of total betrayal,” she tells me.

“The sense that everyone in Gaza was involved, even those who claim to oppose Hamas. I realise how awful that sounds. It truly is awful. But I cannot think anything else today. The past 17 years since Hamas took over Gaza have been difficult and it’s got worse over time. Before the attack, people called life here 90 percent heaven, 10 percent hell. Now it just feels like hell.”

Batia heard Machmud’s voice for the very first time at 10am on October 7 when she received a phone call from an Israeli number she did not recognise. He told her he was inside the kibbutz and asked if Israeli soldiers were nearby.

Burned-out homes in the kibbutz. Sixty-four residents were murdered

“I was so confused,” recalls Batia with a shudder. “At first, I thought Machmud must have heard about the attack and was calling out of concern. It didn’t take long to realise he had a different reason. He wanted to cause me harm. I didn’t speak to him. I just hung up. I didn’t have time to think about the call until two days later. Terrorists were everywhere. My husband and I were just trying to survive. Later, I gave all the details I had about Machmud to the army. His phone number, personal information he’d shared, screenshots of our chats. I have no idea what happened to him.”

[starlightomatic]

i want to bite moshe dayan

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At least 200 Israelis murdered

[sayruq]

The United Nations on Saturday said Israel had authorized the opening of 20 bakeries in the northern Gaza Strip and and a waterline to supply the area, as part of a list of the country’s “commitments” to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

In addition to expanding border crossing operating hours and capacity, the UN official said Israel has approved the activation of 20 bakeries and the reopening of the Nahal Oz waterline in northern Gaza, which was shut off on October 9, with the outbreak of war.

The statement said the number of trucks allowed to pass through from Jordan will be increased from 25 to at least 50 per day, while an additional 100 trucks per day will be scanned via the Kerem Shalom and Nitzana crossings in the south of the Strip.He noted an additional scanner would be installed at Kerem Shalom “to accelerate the transfer of aid into Gaza.”

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Surreal: A field of sunflowers in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, and behind it the ruins of the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City.

Nahal Oz was one of the Israeli villages invaded and brutalized by Gaza on Oct. 7. The terrorists that attacked the kibbutz came from Shejaiya.

They brought death and destruction, but they could not snuff out life in Israel.

And now they live in rubble.

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Une observatrice de Tsahal a signalé un entraînement à grande échelle du Hamas quatre jours avant le 7 octobre

Le correspondant de Kan, Suleiman Maswadeh, publie un nouveau document qui permet d’accuser le commandement de Tsahal de négligence entraînant de graves conséquences – un rapport d’une des observatrice de la base frontalière qui a remarqué des exercices à grande échelle des terroristes du Hamas le long de la frontière quatre jours avant l’invasion du 7 octobre. Selon la publication, la soldate a…

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Maayan Idan ז"ל

Maayan was murdered on October 7th by terrorists who broke into her home in kibbutz Nahal Oz. She was just 18 and 4 days old. One of the sweetest people. A friend. She loved Percy Jackson, and for every birthday, she and her friends would make each other blue chocolate chip cookies. Tsachi Idan, her father, is still held hostage in Gaza.

I hope that next year you will have your own memorial day, Maayan. You deserve one. To be buried at your home, if you'd like. You will always be fondly remembered - but I wish we didn't have to remember. Everyone misses you, I'm sure you know. I hope that Tsachi will come home soon and say the Kaddish for you. Rest in peace 💙🤍💙

Their story from October 7th, to those interested:

https://www.mako.co.il/news-israel/2023_q4/Article-c492f8253436b81027.htm

https://www.mako.co.il/home-family-relationship/Article-afd5bd0dc2f2c81027.htm

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[starlightomatic]

hi, i just want to remind folks that a lot of people on here have personal connections to people who died or were kidnapped on october 7th. please keep this in mind when you want to understand why we react so much when people denying, minimize, or celebrate it.

a couple of months ago i met vivian silver's best friend. vivian silver was a long-time peace activist who was burned to a crisp so badly on october 7th that it took weeks to identify her body. my ex-boyfriend's family was friends with her as well, and they spent those weeks believing she was a hostage and hoping for her return, only to discover that she had been dead the whole time.

a couple weeks ago i met the sister of a nova festival survivor. she said that the hours when her brother was out of contact and they didn't know if he was alive or dead were both the shortest and longest hours of her life. another friend of mine lost five friends that day. yet another friend lost two friends who were on a biking trip in southern israel.

a couple who i know because they attended my childhood synagogue while in the US for two years lived in kibbutz nahal oz. they always told us how beautiful it was, and how they wanted us to visit it. now we can't; it's destroyed, with several of its residents killed. they and their two young girls miraculously survived after hiding in their safe room for ten hours before being rescued. a good friend of mine's boyfriend is from one of the kibbutzim that was destroyed, but he was not there at the time and so survived.

once, many years ago when the ex-boyfriend who i mentioned above (the one who knew vivian) were on a gap year in israel, i visited him on the kibbutz he was living on on a thursday night, and his friend gave us a ride to a bus station the next day to help us get to our shabbat destinations. the friend was headed on to visit friends at kibbutz be'eri, now destroyed, with over 10% of residents killed. i don't know if that man's friends survived.

another friend of mine, who was my coworker for several months when she was in the US last year, lived in metula in northern israel, on the border with lebanon. because of the war, she and many others are internally displaced within israel, because her home is not safe from rockets. recently, a mutual friend told me her house has been destroyed.

another friend of mine attended virtual synagogue with chaim katzman, a young man who spent time in the west bank protecting palestinian shepherds. when hamas fighters opened the closet he was hiding in to capture hostages, they shot him immediately, before taking hostage the women and children hiding in the closet with him.

in total, i have at least eight friends-of-friends who were killed on october 7th. the actual number is probably far higher, since i have a lot of friends in israel and many israelis lost people; but the eight is confirmed.

all of this to say: please understand when you're interacting with me and other jumblr bloggers that this is not theoretical to us. maybe to some of you, it's an academic excercise in seeing fanon's works in practice. maybe it's about decolonial theory and you might think "ah, well, decolonization is violent, what a shame but it was necessary." please remember it's easier to think that when you're not the one sitting at a shabbat lunch table with your mom's old friend who had to learn within the past few months that a woman she'd built movements with and was best friends with had been burned so badly she couldn't be identified for weeks.

i already know that people will believe the purpose of this post is to "generate consent for genocide" no matter what i say, but i'm going to say it anyway: nothing justifies genocide. nothing justifies the brutality that israel visits on the palestinian people. the people of gaza have gone through an order of magnitude more horror than what israelis have. the entire gaza strip is destroyed; people's homes, schools, mosques, orange orchards, everything. entire families have been killed with not a single surviving member. people have starved to death. people lack sanitation, menstrual products, and safe places to give birth. children are operated on without anesthesia. this is one of the greatest humanitarian crises of this century and it is israel's fault.

we need a ceasefire now; we needed a ceasefire yesterday; we needed a ceasefire months ago; we needed this never to begin. blowing up a child in gaza does not bring back vivian, it does not bring back chaim, it does not bring back my friend's cycling friends. it doesn't untraumatize the girl who waited hours to know if her brother was okay or the young family trapped for ten hours in their safe room. and i know for a fact that vivian and chaim would never have wanted this. not in their names, or at all.

so i am not posting this in an attempt to deny, minimize, excuse, or justify the genocide of the people of gaza, or to deny or excuse the nakba, the israeli raids in the west bank, settler violence, land theft both past and present, burning of olive trees, checkpoints and the restrictions on palestinian movement, the denial of right of return, and the fact that most palestinians do not have voting rights in the country that controls their lives.

i also understand that there are folks on here who have just as many personal connections to gaza -- or more -- than i do to israel. that it's deeply personal to them too, and they have watched as loved ones die, places they love and remember are bombed to dust, and people continue to minimize it, excuse it, or fight over semantics. i understand that this post will not land well for many of those folks, and that it will have activated people to hear me speak of nahal oz as a beautiful place i wanted to visit, because that land likely once belonged palestinian families, and was seized after its residents were herded into gaza during the nakba.

and.

people are human. humans deserve to live in safety. friends of humans who are harmed will feel pain, even if those friends lived on colonized land. i also live on colonized land, i am a settler. i live on the lands of indigenous peoples. when i looked up the nation whose land i live on, i can find information about their history but no information on where they went or whether they still exist. i don't know if they experienced a genocide and were all killed, or if they joined another people. i know i have never met any of them, and i live on their land.

and i'm not the only one. millions of people on this site are also colonizers of indigenous land. if you are not indigenous or Black, and you live in the US or Canada, you are every bit as complicit as my friends' dead friends in israel. your beautiful town is not morally better than nahal oz. you recognize yourself and your friends as people; you see their humanity.

i am beyond begging you to see the humanity of israelis, i think many of you can't. instead, this is my request:

remember, as you're doing your callouts, as you're describing me as evil and a person who needs to be blocked for the safety of your followers to i don't infect you or them with my evil:

i say and feel the things i do in large part from a traumatic event that occurred less than a year ago that i am personally connected to. please use what you know of trauma to understand that.

and then, if you can do that, maybe we can start to understand how trauma plays into why israel is the way it is; why trauma is actually the biggest player. so many of you have asked "how could a people who've been brutalized and oppressed brutalize and oppress another people?" my question: why would you expect that not to happen? trauma responses include fear, anger, aggression, compassion fatigue. when a population of descendants of refugees and genocide survivors, in a world that they believe to be out to get them, either supports or turns a blind eye to their government's atrocities, i am not surprised. saddened, but not surprised.

we then have to start asking: who enacted those traumas? when will we start to see the pain of both palestinians and israelis in light of the violence inflictated by far more powerful entities? by germany in the holocaust; russia and poland in the pogroms; swana arab countries in the persecution of jews post-WW2? who's at the top here? many of you are happy to believe it's jews pulling all the strings, but who set this in motion?

who denied jews safe haven before the holocaust, thus enabling this trauma to be inflicted in the first place? the US, and nearly all countries around the world. who restricted jewish immigration even post-holocaust, thus funneling huge numbers of jewish refugees into palestine, overwhelming the population even if israel had not been a colonial project? again, the US, and many other countries. who made double-promises and drew arbitrary lines in the region leading to decades of conflict? the UK.

who's funding this war? the US. Russia. Iran. don't be fooled that any of them care about israelis or palestinians. they have their own interests.

israelis and palestinians are the collateral damage in a horrible chess game that world powers have been playing for centuries. but they are not collateral damage, they are human beings, and their lives have value. collective liberation demands we look at the levels above the oppressor to see who is holding the strings, who put the puzzle pieces in place, who set off the levers and strings in a noxious rube goldberg machine that left nahal oz and be'eri in ruins and gaza destroyed almost beyond recognition.

my friends' little girls cowering in a safe room were never the enemy. chaim katzman hiding in a closet hoping the fighters would overlook it and leave him alive, or at very least capture him instead of kill him, was never the enemy. and they can't be; not if our goal is freedom and safety for everyone in israel/palestine. choosing who will dominate and who will be the oppressed minority in whatever comes next will not be the answer we need, and will not be liberation. just as zionism was not liberation. what can we build together, when this is all over?

what do we need to dismantle and destroy?

let's start with what we don't: homes. villages. cities. kibbutzim. orange trees. olive trees.

and who do we need to fight?

let's start with who we don't: the children.

[omgellendean]

Once again, it's revealed that IOF was killing its own on October 7.

'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well Communication networks could not keep up with the flow of information, as was the case for soldiers sending these reports. However, the message conveyed at 11:22 A.M. across the Gaza Division network was understood by everyone. "Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza" was the order. ... One of these decisions was made at 7:18 A.M., when an observation post at the Yiftah outpost reported that someone had been kidnapped at the Erez border crossing, adjacent to the IDF's liaison office. "Hannibal at Erez" came the command from divisional headquarters, "dispatch a Zik." The Zik is an unmanned assault drone, and the meaning of this command was clear. ... The Erez border crossing was not the only place this happened. Information obtained by Haaretz and confirmed by the army shows that throughout that morning, the Hannibal procedure was employed at two other locations penetrated by terrorists: the Re'im army base, where the divisional headquarters were located, and the Nahal Oz outpost in which female spotters were based. This did not prevent the kidnapping of seven of them or the killing of 15 other spotters, as well as 38 other soldiers. ...  Regarding the frequency of employing the Hannibal procedure, it seems that nothing changed. Thus, for example, at 10:19 A.M. a report reached divisional headquarters indicating that a Zik had attacked the Re'im base. At that point, the army did not know the number of people who had been kidnapped. "We thought they numbered dozens at that stage," a military source told Haaretz. Firing mortars at the Gaza Strip would endanger them as well. Furthermore, another order given at 11:22 A.M., according to which no vehicle would be allowed to return to Gaza, took this a step further. ... "Everyone knew by then that such vehicles could be carrying kidnapped civilians or soldiers," a source in Southern Command told Haaretz. "There was no case in which a vehicle carrying kidnapped people was knowingly attacked, but you couldn't really know if there were any such people in a vehicle. I can't say there was a clear instruction, but everyone knew what it meant to not let any vehicles return to Gaza." A new development occurred at 2:00 P.M. All the forces were instructed not to exit border communities toward the west, in the direction of the border, with an emphasis on not chasing terrorists. At that point, the border area was under intense fire, directed at anyone in that area, making it a danger zone. "The instruction," says the source in Southern Command, "was meant to turn the area around the border fence into a killing zone, closing it off toward the west."

Previous reports indicating IOF has been killing hostages:

A compilation of quotes from Israeli media

Investigation reveals a military helicopter may have been responsible for some deaths

Another incident of friendly fire

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[bringherhome7]

This was the Zohar family.

They loved life, laughter and sharing happy memories together. Father Yaniv worked as a news photographer whilst mother Yasmin worked as an accountant. On October 7th, as rockets were fired into Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Yaniv rushed out to document the attack for the local newspaper he worked for. As he was reporting on the attack and witnessed a kidnapping, he was shot dead. His 13 year old son, Ariel, had gone out for an early morning run before the attack. When he returned home, his entire family were dead. His mother Yasmin, 49, and his sisters Keshet, 20, and Tehelet, 18 had been slaughtered. His grandfather Haim Livne was also killed during the attack. On October 17th, the young boy had to watch his entire family be buried during their funeral.Now the 13 year old lives as an orphan, forever traumatized by the events of that dark day. Source: Times of Israel