Some 120 Hamas terrorists were tasked with assaulting the southern city of Beersheba on October 7, 2023, around 40 kilometers from Gaza, but were stopped by security forces, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The terrorists who failed to arrive at the southern city did not return to Gaza but joined the massacres in other communities closer to the border, according to recordings of Col. Elad Shushan, the IDF officer in charge of investigating the day’s events at Kibbutz Nirim.
The information came from documents recovered in Gaza during the early months of the military’s ground offensive, Kan reports.
The report says that the dispersal of forces who failed to attack targets farther from the border contributed to the fact that some southern communities were attacked by hundreds of terrorists, and not 30 each as originally planned by Hamas.
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