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Eyal, the father of the observer Roni Eshel who was killed in the Hamas attack, on the disclosure of her tapes from the HML in those minutes: “They told them that after Sukkot something would happen”
Last night (Wednesday) chilling recordings of the late observer Roni Eshel, who fell in the killing spree of Hamas terrorists, from those terrible moments in Hamel when she realized what was happening were revealed. Eyal Eshel, the father of the late Roni, spoke with Sion Cohen and referred to the unimaginable hours.
First he referred to the warning his daughter had given days before: “We understood it from the first stages. We understood from the first minutes of Shabbat. I remember the whole sequence of the event, because right at the beginning girls who were there also arrived, they were not in the same group as the girls from that Shabbat Terrible and black.”
According to him, “All the girls had the same sentences, and all the girls spoke the same words almost together. Roni also spoke months ago: ‘Dad, they do homework, they study us.’ On Wednesday, when she came back that morning, she stood at the door and said to me ‘Father, it’s boiling over there, they know everything about us, and they told us that after Sukkot something would happen and to be ready and they gave us a briefing and gave us the possibility of a raid’. I said to her, ‘Roni, what happened to you? We are a big army, we are a strong army and look how everything explodes for us Inside on Saturday morning'”.
When you hear this recording of your heroic daughter, the late Roni, literally describing in the recording the entire takeover and breaking into the outpost, what does it do to you?
“It makes me feel bad. It makes me think that even in those minutes, when Roni was in HML and these other wonderful girls who lost their lives cried out for help, even in the seconds of their reports – there was no one to hear them. We know that the IDF is so sophisticated and so technologically advanced, and we’re talking about 6:28 in the morning that these reports were given. It’s such an early hour that the whole country could still be roused from their beds, let alone the commanders. No one got out of bed , and everyone continued with this thundering silence that cost us all dearly.”
He later claimed: “Everyone already knows, everyone understands that the failure of the command staff, of this entire corps, is intolerable and must not continue, because there are people there who are not fit to command soldiers. I will say it again, and maybe you really are here right now There will be someone in the IDF or the security establishment and certainly in the leadership who will understand that the time has come to change. It is impossible to continue any longer in the situation as it is today.”
Towards the end of the conversation he said that “I sat with Daniel Hagari in a personal conversation and let him understand the situation as I see it, as I, a concerned citizen in the State of Israel, let him understand that something bad is happening in the IDF. The corporate culture is one of the failures in the world, I explained that to him as well, and we see it one by one.”
21/03/2024