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An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen
(www.thecanary.co)
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Here is the same story with a bit of the details corrected from a reasonably legitimate source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-845865
Basically a bit over a year before the attack the IDF shifted patrols further away from the fence for fear of kidnappings. The IDF assessed the risk of a serious penetration had decreased while the risk of a soldier grab had increased. The IDF's threat assessment was wrong of course. Nothing happened that morning.
As for the Golani most of them weren't near Gaza. Some were and there was a notable engagement on Zikim Beach. Basically Hamas had taken out Gazan Command and Control, the troops weren't sure what to do and surrendered beach territory to incoming speed boats (https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-massive-failure-troops-abandoned-civilians-at-zikim-beach-on-oct-7-idf-probe-finds/).
There could not have been an order to stand down that night. The Golani were not stationed there so it couldn't have happened.
So yes this story is a fake.
Claiming that openly genocidal far-right news sites are "legitimate" is a stretch. All they do is verbatim re-state what the government says.
Whether you believe him and many other IDF soldier testimonies is up to you, but claiming it's fake because the genocidal state said so is not evidence of that being the truth.
Also, IDF were literally order to shoot at civilians in hopes of preventing them from being kidnapped. That says a lot about what they were willing to consider "acceptable" loss of life.
Is there a secondary source for this article?
Testimony is recorded in video format which is the primary source. If you are asking if more articles were written in English I'm not sure.
It just seems like the actual evidence for this is a bit shaky. This reads more like a propaganda article than anything else.
Testimony was delivered at Knesset. Whether you consider Israel's legislature a propoganda tool is another question entirely.