Not Only Did the IDF Delay, Even When They Showed Up It Was Pathetic!
From Reuters (still waiting for the OTHER inside accounts…):
Three survivors of the assault on Be’eri with military experience said the Israeli forces operating in the kibbutz engaged Hamas but seemed disorganized. No one seemed to have overall command of the troops and the efforts to clear out the Hamas fighters didn’t seem systematic, they said.
When Yoel got home he found his family sheltering in the safe room in their apartment at the top of a two-storey block. Armed with a pistol and 12 bullets, he decided to remain outside on a terrace to keep guard.
From his perch, he said, he “continued to see terrorists” while army forces came and went. The Israeli troops seemed ineffective. “No one was in control. It was a big, big, big mess.”
Despite the presence of Israeli soldiers in the kibbutz by early afternoon, Hamas gunmen were still killing residents in their homes.
The killers weren’t confronted, but you bet a freelance rescue team of two brothers was! Protocol, Chain of command, centralization, fighting anarchy, Mamlachtiut, and so on:
Through the night, the Klemenson brothers and their nephew kept running into groups of soldiers who were fighting the Hamas gunmen and extracting residents. “Who are you,” the soldiers would challenge them.
“We’re with the 60. We’re with the 50,” Menachem said they told the soldiers. The unit numbers were made up, but in the chaos the ruse worked as the harried soldiers left them to their freelance rescue mission.
Read the rest of the Reuters report (very graphic in every way) here…
Remind me again, why in the world is ANYONE entering that evil, incompetent, fake army but real meatgrinder?!
