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One year on from the 7 October Hamas assaults, extreme inquiries are as yet being posed inside Israel about the deadliest day in its set of experiences, when the country's strong armed force was surprised and quickly wrecked.
The BBC has heard accounts given to groups of what occurred at one army installation that protected the boundary with Gaza.
The Nahal Oz base was invaded by Hamas shooters on the morning of 7 October and in excess of 60 Israeli warriors are accounted for to have been killed - with others kidnapped.
Israel's military is yet to distribute its true investigation into what occurred there that day, however it has previously advised family members of those killed there, and some have imparted those subtleties to the BBC.
This is the nearest we have to an authority account by Israel's military of what occurred on the day.
While trying to additional piece together occasions, we have likewise addressed survivors, seen messages from the individuals who kicked the bucket, and paid attention to voice accounts revealing the assault as it worked out, assisting with building an image of the speed and savagery of the intrusion.
Dubious movement was spotted by many fighters at the base before 7 October, in addition to the young ladies whose work it was to screen line cameras
Troopers saw a sudden stop to Hamas action a long time before the assault
Numerous Israeli soldiers there were unarmed and official conventions had troopers remaining back when enduring an onslaught, rather than progressing
Some reconnaissance gear was either down and out or ready to be annihilated by Hamas effortlessly
The subtleties we have laid out bring up issues - including why not many troopers were equipped at a base so near the boundary, why more wasn't finished to answer the insight and alerts that had been gotten, how it took such a long time for fortifications to show up, and whether the actual framework of the base had left those there unprotected.
We put our discoveries to the IDF, who answered say it was amidst a "careful examination concerning the occasions of October seventh, remembering those for Nahal Oz, and the conditions going before".
On 7 October, Sharon - not her genuine name - started her day of work at Nahal Oz, about a kilometer from the Gaza line wall, at 04:00.
She was important for the base's all-ladies military unit - known as Tatzpitaniyot in Hebrew - and their job was to concentrate on live observation film caught by cameras along the wall.
The ladies worked in shifts in the base's conflict room, or Hamal, watching Gaza through a bank of screens nonstop.
The Hamal is an austere room safeguarded by a strong entryway and shoot walls, with severe security conventions.
The IDF has told groups of individuals on the base that day that numerous tactical staff were unarmed.
Gen Israel Ziv, previous top of the IDF's Activities Division, let the BBC know that during his administration, there couldn't have ever been unarmed troopers in line regions.
"It doesn't seem OK… The warrior is about the weapon," he says.
The outfitted staff at Nahal Oz that day incorporated a unit of infantry fighters from the IDF's Golani detachment.
In the days without further ado before 7 October, be that as it may, things had gone calm.
"There was nothing and that was terrifying us," one infantry fighter positioned at the base recalls."Everybody felt that something was unusual. It didn't check out."
The IDF's inability to get a handle on the thing was going on was down to "a ton of self-importance", says Gen Ziv, the prospect that "Hamas wouldn't assault, wouldn't dare, and that regardless of whether in this way, they are not proficient".
"We nodded off on the sixth reasoning there's a feline around there and we awakened on the seventh and there's a tiger."
At 05:30, individuals from the Golani arranged to start a jeep watch along the Israeli side of the wall - something they did before first light each day. Be that as it may, they were then taught by their bosses to defer the watch and stand back due to a danger of hostile to tank rockets, three of them have told the BBC.
"There was an advance notice. It was illegal to go up the course close to the wall," one reviews.
Another Golani, 21-year-old Shimon Malka, said such an admonition was uncommon however not unbelievable, so they gave it little thought.
Gen Ziv says it is standard IDF convention to stand individuals back during thought assaults like this so they can "try not to be uncovered as an objective". Yet, he says, "That's what hamas understood and utilized it" for their potential benefit.
He said the base ought to have been outfitted with places that the Golani could securely answer from.
"There are exceptionally basic procedures to cover warriors so they're under cover yet they're still in a situation to respond, to not lose sight," he said.
As the Golani stood by away from the wall, Sharon started seeing developments among Hamas contenders. Be that as it may, they appeared to not be anything other than routine - "they likewise have shifts."
About a similar time, Shimon heard the code words for a rocket assault through his radio. His leader requested they hop from their jeep into a Namer - a kind of Israeli protected staff transporter - and head towards the wall.
However, he was unable to see any invasions and expected it was only a drill.
This supposed iron wall had for quite some time been seen by the IDF and individuals across Israel as impervious, but bases along it started detailing breaks.
Every one of the Tatzpitaniyot on shift at Nahal Oz saw somewhere in the range of two and five breaks of the segment of boundary wall they were answerable for checking, says Sharon. They looked as Hamas contenders advanced inside Israel.
Gen Ziv says the straightforwardness with which warriors had crossed the wall showed the blemishes in an obstruction saw to be impervious.
"As you saw, two truck-burdens could come and push it. It was nothing. Regardless of whether there was a minefield of 50 or 60 meters around there, it would have postponed Hamas for a couple of hours."
Presently before 06:40, a perception post at Nahal Oz was hit and harmed by a rocket, as per IDF family instructions notes imparted to the BBC.
An expert rifleman locating framework was set in motion from the Hamal - the operational hub of the base - and an official endeavored to take shots from a distance at shooters attempting to cross the line, the IDF told families.
Infantry officials joined the Tatzpitaniyot in the Hamal, as well. Sharon recollects that one officer showing up in her nightgown.
And afterward, as shooters kept on taking shots at reconnaissance cameras, the checking separates the Hamal began to go dull.
The way that Hamas had been working on display of these reconnaissance cameras, along the boundary long previously, was strategic, says Gen Ziv, to "standardize things".
Only 100 meters from where the Tatzpitaniyot were working, Alroy - one of the five IDF perception balloonists on location that morning - was woken by the rockets and the alarms, his dad Rafi Ben Shitrit told the BBC.
The IDF later gave subtleties of an underlying examination to Alroy's family about what happened that day.
The inflatable at Nahal Oz offered a more profound view into Gaza, and should be functional 24 hours every day.
However, on 7 October it was one of three along the boundary that were down and out.
"The inflatable in Nahal Oz didn't work and nobody was worried, they were told it would be fixed on Sunday," says Mr Ben Shitrit.
"There was an environment like: 'Hamas is discouraged, regardless of whether something happens it's a psychological militant invasion or probably a fear monger crew.'"
Back at her observation point, Sharon continued wildly speaking with troopers on the ground.
"I cried and declared, all the while," she says.
She recalls that the superior shouted for "calm" since a portion of the young ladies were losing center in the midst of the repulsiveness.
At the wall, Shimon says he followed the radio bearings. He actually couldn't comprehend the reason why the young lady's voice he was hearing sounded so terrified.
"I could feel the pressure, however I was unable to see anything."
At the point when his unit arrived at the spot the Tatzpitaniyot had guided them to, they saw Hamas trucks getting through the wall.
"They began to take shots at us. Perhaps five trucks."
The warriors shot back and ran over those on motorbikes.
Across Israel that day, around 1,200 individuals - including in excess of 300 fighters - were killed and 251 others were kidnapped. From that point forward, in excess of 41,000 Palestinians have been killed because of Israeli military activity in Gaza, the Hamas-run wellbeing service says.
The Nahal Oz dead were to incorporate Alroy the balloonist and four friends, who had taken part in an extensive fight with Hamas, says his dad, refering to data given to him by the IDF.
They figured out how to kill near 10 shooters, he said, yet the five were dwarfed and were completely tracked down dead inside a portable safe house at 14:30.
The conflict room - which had been planned as a place of refuge for the base's units - was obliterated. Photographs and recordings show it burned, the screens the Tatzpitaniyot had been cautiously checking, darkened. Bone pieces were found among the remains there.
The survivors and the groups of those killed and abducted are left with unanswered inquiries regarding how it veered off-track wrong.
-Source: BBC News.
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