Military Analysis of Recent Conflict

Now, this assessment that was conducted on Saturday morning before—

How early? At approximately what time?

At around four in the morning with the head—with the IDF chief, the Shin Bet chief, the head of Military Intelligence, and senior officials

others. It ended with the assessment, note this, that there was going to be a battle on

Saturday that could include an attempted raid and infiltration by a force of

terrorists that would attempt to take over one or two communities, perhaps abduct

or abduct, or both. But it must be emphasized that this assessment was on a much smaller scale—

A smaller scale than what we saw, uh, in the field.

And still, despite this specific information, we saw that Shin Bet sent the

Tequila team south. This is a team intended to neutralize terrorist infiltrations.

Shin Bet's operational team.

Shin Bet's operational team.

Exactly. But the Gaza Division not only didn't raise the alert level

and add more

forces, they didn't even update the forces on the ground that they needed

to prepare. Uh, uh, things that are routinely carried out in the division during drills.

Wait, wait, let me—

No, it's so infuriating. A few more soldiers on the border,

another Meskara in the air

And all of this could have been prevented.

Not only that, they didn't wake all the soldiers at the outposts, at the base outposts, to prepare

for an infiltration. Soldiers were killed in their rooms, we know.

Why didn't they move the tanks that were actually, uh,

in rear positions to forward positions?

They didn't mobilize the communities' emergency squads.

We even heard this from Ofir Lifshitz—his wife, his widow, who told this

to Ilana Dayan. Very, very difficult questions that will have to be asked and cost

us many human lives.

Heartbreaking.

Let's watch just one sentence, and we won't dwell on this any further.

Uh, intelligence and indicative signs do not

indicate.

Intelligence had accumulated long before Friday.

Yes, and we'll hear more about it ahead of the commission of inquiry.