Nahal Oz

With severe lapses in contingency planning and foresight by security experts, it is crucial to reevaluate current practices to prevent future tragedies.

Barry Meirovitch, civilian response team head, spoke to the unofficial civilian prove of Oct. 7 - noting that his community was left unarmed to defend itself.

"When I asked him what the soldiers were doing, he answered: They go there, wag their finger at them, and come back," Baram said.

Despite her situation, Liri managed to send messages to her family via released hostages. She urged her sister not to cancel her post-army trip and humorously cautioned her not to touch her shoes.

Only two minutes had passed after the terrorist launched projectiles towards Kibbutz Nahal Oz before he was killed, the IDF said.

We have no other country. We love you, our homeland – please come back to us. Tsachi and Omri, hold on, we are all waiting for you, all of us at Nahal Oz.

Her dramatic and heart wrenching words, "I have friends in Palestine," should be a wake-up call: Hamas, as well as a majority of Palestinians, will never acknowledge Israel.

The video, taken from Hamas terrorists' body cameras, is 3:10 minutes long and has been censored.  

There’s a sense the government has abandoned these communities, that there is a lack of caring for them, that there is no government here.

Major General (Res.) Noam Tibon, who fought against Hamas terrorists in Nahal Oz to save his son, harshly criticizes the IDF's conduct on October 7.