‘No new info’: IDF plays surveillance troops’ parents full tapes of lead-up to attack after complaints

IDF Personnel Directorate head Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa meets with families of female surveillance soldiers killed or abducted during Hamas’s October 7 attack.

He promises the families full access to recordings of their daughters from the day leading up to the attack, people who attended the meeting tell Channel 13.

The network quotes a lawyer representing the families, Gilad Yitzhak Bar-Tal, who says the meeting was “warm and empathetic.” Bar-Tal says Bar Kalifa gave the families new recordings including some from the morning of the Hamas attack. The lawyer says the recordings did not contain new information.

The general will meet with another group of surveillance soldiers’ families on Monday, Bar-Tal adds.

The military announced the meetings on Wednesday after the families complained that the IDF had provided them with only partial recordings of their daughters.

The IDF, which sent the families the recordings on Monday, said it had omitted portions where other troops could be heard, as well as long sections of silence. It said it would give the families any other sections it found where their loved ones could be heard.

Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.