An Israeli soldier who survived the Palestinian raid on 7 October 2023 told reporters, on camera, that he and all the troops in the area of the fence between southern Israel and Gaza were ordered, early on the morning of 7 October, to stay in their posts and not to patrol the fence for several hours – the hours in which the raid began.
The soldier’s testimony, from August 2025, is being recirculated on social media:
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/israeli-soldiers-ordered-to-stand-down-1.mp4
The fact that Israel knew – and was warned by other governments – in advance of the raid has been discussed openly in Israeli media since shortly after the raid:
Curiously, this is still being ignored by UK media and politicians eager to maintain and amplify Israel’s propaganda justifying its genocidal slaughter of approaching 700,000 Palestinians, around 94% of them civilians according to the Israeli military’s own data.
The same UK silence has applied to the long-known fact that Israel killed most of the Israelis who died that day.
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By Skwawkbox
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Just as expected, they knew about it and took the opportunity to use it as an excuse for the genocide.