After complaints, parents to hear full tape of surveillance soldiers’ before attack

IDF Personnel Directorate head Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa will present parents of female surveillance soldiers killed or abducted during Hamas’s October 7 attack with the full recordings of their radio communications from the day and the hours before the onslaught, the army says.

Kalifa will meet with the parents on Friday to play them the full tape.

The IDF this week sent the families recordings which only included the voices of the surveillance soldiers, saying it omitted portions where other troops could be heard, as well as long sections of silence. The families have complained that the recordings are incomplete and that not all of the soldiers can be heard.

The IDF denies that it is hiding any material from the families, and says that if there are any other sections in which the surveillance soldiers can heard, they will be given to them.