The first soldier arrived after the last terrorists had left
In further remarks, outgoing IDF chief Herzi Halevi addressed the fact that the first IDF troops did not reach Kibbutz Nir Oz, where a quarter of residents were killed or kidnapped, until the last terrorists had gone
Halevi said a lot had been said in the media about too many troops going to Sderot, the Gaza border town that was among the many communities attacked
Halevi said, Two sets of forces were dispatched to Nir Oz but they got caught up in other battles en route and did not reach the kibbutz
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“The results were terrible"
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As someone from Nir Oz told me, the first soldier arrived after the last terrorist had left
"That’s the worst thing that we could hear”
Halevi added,
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"the absent intelligence material “in this war was a big part of the failure"
1. we would have wanted advance warning 2. we would have wanted to know [what was about to happen] 3. We didn’t get it…” 4. That could have changed the reality
