Katy, mother of Cpl. Nik Beizer, tells the Walla news site she finds it difficult to believe that the military didn’t know her son and two other hostages were near a senior Hamas commander when the army launched an airstrike against him in November, killing the captives as well.
“It’s amazing they didn’t have intelligence, that they didn’t think there were hostages next to [Ahmed] Gandour,” she says, referring to the senior Hamas commander targeted and killed in the strike.
“It is difficult to understand and believe this, that they didn’t think that next to someone important like him there wouldn’t be hostages” being used as human shields.
She says she is very angry over the handling of the events of October 7, and the fact that her son, who was not a combat soldier, was kidnapped from a base, adding that he should have been evacuated before terrorists had a chance to abduct him.
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