Occupied Jerusalem – It returned the initial information for the Israeli occupation police investigations To the fore is the possibility of hundreds of Israelis being killed by occupation army fire during the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle on the 7th of last month.
The same information showed that an Israeli Air Force fighter opened fire on participants in the “Nova” music festival in the “Re’im” settlement in the “Gaza envelope”, seeking to kill gunmen from the Palestinian resistance factions who arrived at the place.
According to what was reported on the website of the newspaper “Haaretz” by a senior police officer, preliminary investigations revealed that an occupation army fighter arrived at the ceremony site, coming from the “Ramat David” base near Haifa, and opened fire on the gunmen, and apparently also wounded several others. The revelers who were there.
In turn, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the police received 24,000 calls on the morning of last October 7, all of them calling for help and rescue from the sudden attack by Al-Qassam Brigades fighters who infiltrated Israel en masse.
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The police indicated that at 6:22 a.m., they sounded sirens in the vicinity of the party, called in reinforcements from various police units, and dispersed the revelers, as it was reported that the party venue had been targeted with bullets and missiles.
The clashes at the concert venue ended – according to the police investigation – at 3:30 pm with the elimination of all the gunmen, without clarifying whether many of the revelers were killed by police bullets.
The police operational investigation revealed that 4,400 people participated in the concert, of whom about 364 were killed during clashes between Al-Qassam fighters and Israeli police forces, and 40 people were kidnapped, as well as 15 policemen killed in the clashes, while 4 gunmen were arrested.
Hamas camouflage
A report published on the website of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper by military correspondent Yoav Zeitoun on October 15 addressed what he described as “Hamas deceiving Israeli army helicopters,” referring to the possibility of Israeli Air Force fighters being involved in the killing of many participants in the concert. .
The military correspondent explained that the blur of battle accompanied not only the fighters on the ground, but also the air teams that launched from the skies of the Western Negev in the first hours of the events of “Black Saturday,” according to his description.
He explained that the first regiment of fighters arrived at the “Gaza Division” at around 7:30, that is, about an hour or more after the events began, from the “Ramat David” base in the north, according to an Air Force investigation.
This comes despite the fact that the main squadrons of Apache helicopters are located in Camp Ramon in the western Negev, which is the closest to the Gaza Strip. The officers at Ramon quickly realized that something unusual was developing, so they and the commander of the 190th Squadron, Lieutenant Colonel A, launched a combat helicopter that reached the cover at 8:32 am.
After the pilots realized that there was great difficulty in distinguishing between Palestinians and Israelis inside the settlements and military bases, the military correspondent said, “A decision was made that the first mission of combat helicopters and armed Zik drones was to stop armed operations and penetrate the security fence.”
Shooting intensified
28 combat helicopters opened fire over the course of one day, ran out of ammunition and missiles, and were returning to the air force base in the western Negev in order to arm themselves again with hundreds of 30 mm artillery shells, as well as Hellfire missiles.
The rate of fire on thousands of militants was initially massive and intense, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and choose targets carefully, according to the Air Force investigation.
Military correspondent Zaytoun said, “Hamas deliberately made it difficult for helicopter pilots and drone operators, as it asked the forces invading the cover area to advance slowly towards or inside the settlements and military bases, and not to escape under any circumstances in order to make the pilots believe that they were… “Israelis.”
This deception worked for a long time, until the Apache pilots realized that they had to bypass all restrictions, and around nine in the morning – according to the military correspondent – some of them began firing from the air intensively with cannons on their own without permission from their superiors.
This behavior reinforces the possibilities and estimates of the Israeli media that many Israelis were killed by army, security forces and air force fire during the attempt to eliminate and clash with Al-Qassam Brigades fighters.
The same developments and events were reviewed by the military correspondent of the “Wala” website, Amir Bouhbut, on the morning of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, where two “Sharaf” combat helicopters took off for the first time from an air base in Haifa, and arrived in the Gaza Strip area before eight o’clock in the morning.
About half an hour later, a third helicopter took off from the “Ramon” base and arrived at the scene of the incident with the commander of the 190th Squadron, “Magic Touch Squadron”, Lieutenant Colonel (A), who ordered the opening of fire on the open areas to deter the intruding Qassam fighters, and to allow another helicopter to land the fighters nearby. From the Bari settlement.
The navigator reported that he and his commander (A) saw, at a distance, a Palestinian crowd coming from the populated areas in Gaza to the border fence, similar to the violent protests and unrest that occurred during the past months and the return marches. Then he decided to fire two missiles and cannon shells for deterrence only, and not for killing.
When the helicopter headed to the “Nahal Oz” settlement, the two saw the huge gaps that opened in the border fence, and the Palestinian crowd that headed to the “Gaza envelope” area. Then the bombing and shooting began from the air towards crowds of militants, as the commander of Squadron 190 continued the bombing and arming. With ammunition and carrying out raids over the cover and at the border fence until two-thirty in the afternoon on the first day of the “Al-Aqsa Flood.”