- IDF lookouts warned their commanders about exercise alongside the Gaza border, in response to studies.
- They had been ignored, advised to cease bothering them, and even threatened, N12 reported.
- One lookout stated they had been advised they might be “court-martialed.”
IDF lookouts expressed concern about exercise alongside the Gaza boarder lengthy earlier than the October 7 terrorist assaults, in response to studies.
The lookouts had been telling their commanders they had been witnessing uncommon exercise alongside the border for months, however they had been ignored, advised to cease bothering them, and even threatened, The Jerusalem Put up reported by way of Israeli information station N12.
A few of the exercise the lookouts witnessed included uncommon coaching protocols and extra individuals lingering close to the fence, per the outlet.
One lookout knowledgeable their senior commander, the report stated, however was rebuffed.
“I do not need to hear once more about this nonsense,” they reported being advised. “In case you all hassle us once more with these items, you may be court-martialed.”
Earlier studies said commanders advised their lookouts Hamas had been “only a bunch of punks” who would not “do something” once they reported what that they had seen.
“A day in the beginning occurred, I noticed individuals with maps,” one lookout advised N12, per J Put up. “They had been wanting on the fence and pointing at it. I advised everybody: ‘Hear, one thing goes to occur. I see them planning issues.’ I seen that one thing was completely different on the entrance. I even advised the individual subsequent to me in jest: ‘Hear, they are going to storm our publish.’ It simply seemed completely different.”
Different lookouts reported seeing the identical drills time and again: taking pictures, laying on the bottom, then throwing grenades.
“In the long run, that is what occurred to me,” they stated. “They shot at me, threw grenades at me.”
N12 additionally reported the lookouts who had been current on October 7 weren’t receiving any psychological help from the military and had been even advised they might be transferred in the event that they did not return to service inside two weeks.
In response, the army advised the outlet that troopers had been accompanied “carefully and sensitively” by psychological well being professionals.
“Their return to responsibility might be accompanied regularly, sensitively, and in response to every one’s situation,” the spokesperson stated. “There isn’t a intention of taking disciplinary measures towards them. If there have been conversations that replicate in any other case, then they’re towards the rules and might be dealt with accordingly.”
