{"id":275979,"date":"2023-11-20T08:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T08:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275979"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:35:22","slug":"israeli-troops-warned-about-hamas-attacks-female-soldiers-reported-suspicious-activity-on-the-border-with-gaza-in-weeks-leading-up-to-october-7-attack-but-were-threatened-with-court-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275979","title":{"rendered":"Israeli troops ‘warned about Hamas attacks: Female soldiers reported suspicious activity on the border with Gaza in weeks leading up to October 7 attack – but were threatened with court martial’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas members pictured at the Gaza Israel border months before Oct 7<\/p>\n

Nick Pisa \u2013Daily Mail Nov 19, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Worried soldiers who raised concerns about suspicious activity in the days leading to Hamas<\/strong><\/a> terror raids on Israel<\/strong><\/a> were threatened with court martial, it has emerged.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong><\/a> and his cabinet have faced stiff criticism from Israelis who have accused them of being caught out by the raids which left more than 1,200 dead.<\/p>\n

A further 239 people were taken hostage and although a handful have been released there are dozens of worried families still waiting for news on loved ones<\/p>\n

Now Israel’s leading Channel 12 news programme has broadcast claims from female soldiers they were threatened with court martial for raising concerns before the October 7 attack.<\/p>\n

One said: ‘We were told that if we continue to harass on this issue, you will stand trial.’<\/p>\n

The soldiers said they had raised concerns for weeks beforehand about suspicious activity on Israel’s southern border with the Gaza strip and which they said ‘raised red flags’.<\/p>\n

Commanders were informed of ‘training, anomalies and preparations’ near the border and the soldiers told Channel 12 they had seen ‘new people visiting farms around the border’.<\/p>\n

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An Israeli tank burns on the Gaza\/Israel border. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

One said: ‘More and more people who had never visited the area suddenly came to it, and farmers who used to come suddenly stopped working on the fields and were replaced.’<\/p>\n

The soldiers said this ‘rang alarm bells’ with them but when they voiced their concerns to commanding officers in the Israeli Defence Force they were brushed aside.<\/p>\n

One allegedly said: ‘I don’t want to hear about this nonsense again. If you bother with these things again, you will stand trial.’<\/p>\n

Another is said to have snorted: ‘Hamas are just a bunch of punks, they won’t do anything.’<\/p>\n

Other soldiers also claimed that they had not been given enough ‘psychological support’ after losing comrades or family members in the killings on October 7.<\/p>\n

Some said they were asked to return to duty after two weeks when they felt they were still not ready for service.<\/p>\n

An IDF spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘The IDF and its commanders accompany all the soldiers and soldiers who were present at the events of 7 October closely and sensitively.<\/p>\n

‘The soldiers are accompanied by medical professionals from the mental health system, this is in addition to the continuous contact with their commanders who are an envelope and a listening ear.<\/p>\n

‘Their return to duty will be accompanied gradually, sensitively and according to the situation of each one.<\/p>\n

‘There is no intention of taking disciplinary measures against them. If there were conversations that reflect otherwise, then they are against the guidelines and they will be dealt with accordingly.’<\/p>\n

Meanwhile another report in Israeli online site Walla ! claimed that a tank commander had reported soldiers to HQ for ‘ playing football and swimming in the sea’.<\/p>\n

The report also claimed that drivers ‘racing to reach targets first’ in the Gaza strip had ‘ended in a collision’ but that fortunately no one was hurt.<\/p>\n

When asked about this the IDF said: ‘The conduct and words of the soldiers emerging are not in line with the orders and values of the IDF expected of soldiers when fulfilling their duties.<\/p>\n

‘Each case is handled on its own merit.’<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soldiers who raised concerns about suspicious activity they had witnessed on the border with Gaza, were either ignored or warned \u2018no to harass\u2019 on the issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":275036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275984,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275979\/revisions\/275984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}