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Shalom Shitrit - an IDF soldier who was on duty on 7 October 2023 - has made a damning testimony to the Knesset

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/08/idf-soldier-knesset-testimony/


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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

Just a reminder that Netanyahu was less than a month from being sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges before the attack happened and the Zionist party was allowed to declare martial law.

[-] bizzle@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

LIHOP is a big deal in the 9/11 truth community, I'm not surprised that other events spawn the same accusations

[-] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

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.

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Is there a secondary source for this article?

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

It just seems like the actual evidence for this is a bit shaky. This reads more like a propaganda article than anything else.

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

Testimony was delivered at Knesset. Whether you consider Israel's legislature a propoganda tool is another question entirely.

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 66 points 1 day ago

I mean Israel has all but admitted it. Combined with ordering soldiers to shoot their own civilians ‘to save them from becoming hostages,’I have no idea how Israelis are okay with their government sacrificing them even if they concur with their government on the genocide generally.

[-] Flipper@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago

Combined with ordering soldiers to shoot their own civilians

Excuse me, WHAT? Do you have a proper source because that sounds bonkers!

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 11 points 18 hours ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

Israeli newspapers including HaaretzABC News and the UN's Commission of Inquiry have pointed out that during the October 7 attacks the IDF ordered the Hannibal Directive to be used. The IDF was ordered to prevent "at all costs" the abduction of Israeli civilians or soldiers, possibly leading to the death of a large number of Israeli hostages.[6][7][8][9]

[-] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 day ago

They don’t value life. Period. Any life. Including their own.

Israeli soldiers said they specifically received orders to cancel all patrols along the Gaza border from 5:20 AM until 9:00 AM. On October 7th 2023.

i'm somehow surprised

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not surprised Israeli politicians or IDF leadership would conspire to enable domestic terrorism. Fascists do not value the lives of anyone but themselves and their immediate family/friends. I am surprised they would do it so blatantly.

How many soldiers would have been pulled from routine patrols? How often do they rotate or change patrols? You'd assume they'd advise patrols to check specific areas based on intelligence, but not the opposite. How would hundreds, if not thousands, of people not connect the dots instantly? Why would it take years for any of them to speak out?

[-] guy@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Well, doubt

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

This is damning in it's simplicity, no twisted theories needed, no way to justify pulling patrols that were always there. There's a small military base down the road from my hood, in zero danger of attack. Can you imagine any reason they would order the gate guards to just not show up?!

Said from the beginning, I refuse to believe that Israel's famed intelligence apparatus failed to root out an attack of this magnitude. No way, they're world class and thwarting an attack like this is their very raison d'être.

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

Not to mention that if it was really about stopping Hamas, they could just keep assassinating the leadership until there's no one left who wants to risk it.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If they wanted to stop hamas they would end the occupation in the west bank and make comittement to end occupation in gaza first showing willingness for peace then they would talk with the western countries to arms the PA and let them finish hamas.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago

When Israel "assasinates" a "high value target" usually dozens if not hundreds of people are murdered alongside. Heck they have an AI tool to make sure that targets are hit when they are home with their family to maximize the casualties.

If you are Palestinian, Israel will probably try to kill or abduct and torture you. So people rather die fighting.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

It's not that easy. Hamas leadership goes to great lengths to protect themselves from Israeli assassinations. Yehia Sinwar for example didn't use a smartphone for this very reason. It's also harder for people to "not risk it" when they're denied the right to even hope for a better future.

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

They were successfully hunting down Nazis multiple continents away before smart phones were a thing. I think they could have figured it out if they wanted to.

This was always about genocide.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Obviously this was always about genocide; I'm not disputing that. My point is that the Palestinian resistance evolved under and against the backdrop of Israeli intelligence, so they're not exactly sitting ducks for the IDF to assassinate.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Well, that person's days are numbered

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

That soldier should steer clear of pagers and walkie talkies.

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Avoid balconies and polonium.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Wait till you find out the IDF shot over 11.000 apache bullet grenades on October 7 and refuses to release the report of how many Israelis they killed.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Some shit Trump would do, fascists don't care about their people

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Shitrit 😭

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