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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed the harsh findings of a report that charges that the IDF’s Gaza Division failed to adequately respond to the massacre that unfolded at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack. The IDF feels the report’s findings are so shocking that it has chosen not to release it for the time being, reported Israel’s television Channel 12 News.
It has been reported that 46 of the kibbutz’s 400 residents – including children and babies and entire families – were murdered in the October 7 massacre. About 80 of its residents were taken back to Gaza and held as hostages.
The investigation was conducted by IDF Colonel Yotam Burstein, commander of the armored corps’ officer training 454th Brigade. In part, the investigation found that the Gaza Division failed to adequately asses the reality of the terrors that transpired at Kibbutz Nir Oz during the day on October 7, 2023 and the situation there, and that the Division also failed to properly disseminate the information about what was happening there to the various IDF units in the area.
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Also, the report found that the IDF Southern Command failed to update the IDF’s Operations Division as to the troop deployments during the day so rescue forces were not put into place in a timely fashion.
As a result, reported Channel 12, the IDF did not send troops to Kibbutz Nir Oz in order to rescue the many civilians there who were murdered during the attack.
One rescue force that was on its way to Nir Oz at around 11 AM that day encountered a group of terrorists on the road who attacked them. During the engagement, an IDF officer was killed and after it was over the forces were sent to fight somewhere else.
A rescue team did not get to Nir Oz until after 2 PM after the terrorist who attacked the Kibbutz had already left.
Situated in the Eshkol Regional Council, approximately 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the border with the Gaza Strip, Nir Oz was founded in 1955 by Israeli pioneers and members of the Hashomer Hatzair socialist Zionist youth movement.
