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Israeli spotters pictured in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv awaiting the release of Agam Berger.
This whole October 7 situation keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
It was bad enough that the military said they knew it was going to happen and don’t understand why Bibi pulled the troops from the border. Now randos are just like “yeah I was watching them out my window and told the government and they said it was fine.”
Roni Eshel told her father many times that she could see Hamas militants training for an attack near the Nahal Oz base where she served in a surveillance unit. The scale of the preparations left her frightened for her life.
She detailed the activity in daily reports over the summer and early autumn of 2023, raising the alarm together with dozens of other young women “spotters” – charged with watching a tiny section of the border in intense detail – who were posted along Israel’s border with Gaza.
A cocktail of chauvinism, arrogance and complacency meant their warnings were ignored or dismissed by senior commanders for the region, most of them men.
The senior officers were convinced Gaza was locked down by Israel’s layers of hi-tech defences, but 19-year-old Eshel proved a more accurate observer of the strip than many of the country’s top generals.
She paid for their mistakes with her life, killed along with 14 other spotters when their base was overrun. A last recording captured her detailing with calm precision the movements of Hamas fighters as they breached the border just 500 metres away.
Seven spotters were taken to Gaza. Their families and hundreds of other women who served in the same role over decades sprang into action, campaigning to bring them back.
Yahel Oren, 31, was one of them. This week she stood in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square wearing a T-shirt that said “once a spotter, always a spotter”, to watch the last of those women, Agam Berger, return to Israel under a ceasefire deal after 15 months in captivity.
Agam Berger
One of the seven, Noa Marciano, was killed in Gaza. The remaining six have all returned – one rescued by the military in October 2023, and the other five released last month. Now the campaign group is shifting focus.
They want Israel, which has largely deferred an institutional reckoning with the security failures of 7 October, to have an official inquiry into why the spotters were so tragically ignored ahead of the attack, and abandoned to their fate that morning.
“Unfortunately I just have my story, my timeline,” Eyal Eshal, who often told his oldest daughter not to worry, because Hamas was no match for the IDF. “All of us believed we had the strongest army, but it was a joke.”
Any inquiry into October 7 is going to show that Bibi let this happen on purpose, and it’s also going to show that most if not all of the civilians killed on that day were killed by the IDF.
Bibi would go to jail, and it would pretty much wipe out the Israeli right for decades.
These women were literally just watching out their windows and supposedly figured out what Bibi couldn’t.
Other spotters welcoming Agar Berger.
A lot of Israelis want Bibi to go down and they’re now super mad he surrendered to Hamas after starting this war.
What is the end game here?
As I said from the beginning, if Bibi gets ousted, the US-Iran war is maybe or even probably off the table for the foreseeable future. As long as Bibi is there, it is unavoidable, but if he gets crucified, as is looking more and more likely, everything changes.
Is he just going to restart the war in the second phase of the ceasefire? That seems likely. Or maybe he’s just going to go full-on in the West Bank?
He’s surely not just going to surrender?
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