DISTURBING: IDF Report Reveals That Soldiers Abandoned Civilians on Zikim Beach To Hamas Massacre

 

Zikim beach is the closest beach to Gaza

On October 7th, 19 civilians were killed by Hamas Islamic Jihadists.

Many people do not know that Hamas still had members INSIDE Israel on October 24th who the IDF were looking for.

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Terrifying footage of last moments of civilians hiding in bathrooms. The soldier left the scene and they were soon massacred.

  An IDF report on the Zikim beach battle which occurred on Oct. 7, 2023 reveals serious failures on the part of the Golani defenders charged with protecting the civilians on the beach, leading to a massacre of 17 civilians by terrorists arriving by sea. Despite their numerical superiority, the Golani squad did not engage the enemy and abandoned the civilians, redeploying away from the beach.

As Hamas’s rocket fire began at 6:29 a.m., a squad of six Golani soldiers in a GMC Savana van positioned outside Zikim Base headed into the IDF logistics base. At 6:42 a.m., the troops, joined by another soldier, Sgt. Dvir Lisha, 21, headed for the beach after receiving reports of a seaborne infiltration.

At 6:43 a.m., 32 civilians were sheltering at the beach, including eight in the bathroom, 12 in the bomb shelter, two under the beach’s sunshades, five in the sand dunes to the north of the beach, four in the sand dunes to the south, and one in the parking lot.

The seven Golani soldiers reached the bathroom at 6:44 a.m., where they met the civilians and told them to stay put. The troops then advanced toward the sea, as a Hamas speedboat, with five terrorists on board, arrived a minute later. (Several other speedboats had been intercepted and destroyed by naval forces).

Only once the terrorists began to open fire did the soldiers spot them. According to surveillance footage, the troops withdrew to the bathroom area at 6:46 a.m. There was a distance of about 110 meters between the soldiers and the terrorists, and limited visibility. Lisha attempted to return fire while using the bathroom building as cover, but was unable to hit any of the terrorists.

Meanwhile, the terrorists advanced on the sunshades area, murdering two fishermen, John Aslanov, 70, and Robert Shaulov, 70.

The soldiers, at this point, had lost eye contact with the terrorists and decided at 6:47 a.m. to withdraw further back toward the parking lot, while leaving behind the eight civilians in the bathroom and 12 others in the bomb shelter. The troops reached an elevated position on the edge of the parking lot, thinking they could see the terrorists from there, but structures were blocking their view.

The terrorists pushed forward toward the parking lot and opened fire on the soldiers after spotting them. The terrorists also murdered Abed Ziyadne, 26, at the parking lot.

Two of the soldiers, including Lisha, remained in the elevated position, while the other five withdrew toward the southern sand dunes, where civilians were sheltering. However, the troops did not stop where the civilians were, but rather moved even further away, for unclear reasons.

Five surviving terrorists from another speedboat joined up with the five terrorists already at the beach and opened fire on the soldiers hiding in the dunes, wounding one of them. Another was shell-shocked. The Navy shelling against the terrorists also hit close to where the civilians and soldiers were hiding, though none were wounded by it, the probe found.

At 6:51 a.m., Lisha told the soldier next to him at the elevated position that he was going to join the commander of the squad. But instead of heading for the dunes, the soldier, for unclear reasons, ran straight toward the bathroom, where the terrorists were located. He was immediately killed, and the terrorists took his gun.

At 6:54 a.m., six of the terrorists at the beach advanced on foot along the Nahal Shikma stream, toward Kibbutz Zikim. The other four, at 6:57 a.m., took control of the Golani soldiers’ van and headed out of the parking lot, also toward Zikim.

At 6:40 a.m., the Ashdod Naval Base notified the chief of Kibbutz Zikim’s civil defense squad that a seaborne infiltration was underway. The security chief alerted the team, who were all armed with assault rifles. The team began to take up their posts at 6:42 a.m.

One member of the security team stationed at a post on the edge of the kibbutz identified the stolen IDF van approaching on the road at 7:04 a.m., though he initially thought it was Israeli forces. As four terrorists got out, he understood they were not Israeli soldiers and opened fire.

The other terrorists from Zikim Beach arrived in the area on foot. Meanwhile, the chief of the local security team and two other officers reached the post and exchanged fire with the terrorists.

At around 7:20 a.m., the company commander of the Golani troops, who had been away for the weekend, arrived in the area from the north and joined the local security team. At this point, two of the terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire.

At around 8 a.m., the terrorists hurled eight grenades at the post, wounding two members of the security team. Others took up the post and continued the exchange of fire with the terrorists.

At 8:20 a.m., Shin Bet officer Michael Ben Moshe, 26, arrived on the road outside Zikim while trying to reach a nearby IDF base. He got out of his car and exchanged fire with the terrorists, eliminating some of them before being killed. Some of the terrorists took his car, and drove it back to the Zikim Base area.

At the same time, civilians fleeing from a party at an undesignated beach, who had initially hid at Zikim Base, passed by the area and came under fire by the terrorists. Three were lightly wounded.

At 8:45 a.m., troops of the Maglan commando unit reached Zikim after being alerted by their company commander, a resident of the kibbutz. The commandos picked up their officer and drove to the location of the exchange of fire, then advanced on the terrorists, killing two.

At this point, the remaining terrorists withdrew and abandoned their plan to capture Kibbutz Zikim.

At 12:30 p.m., troops of the 202nd Paratroopers Brigade scanned the beach for possible terrorists, but found none. The soldiers found some of the bodies and removed them, but were dispatched to Kfar Aza before they could continue.

At 11 p.m., other paratroopers were dispatched to protect Zikim, as the military believed there were still terrorists in the area.

On October 8, two terrorists were killed by Navy shelling and ground troops near Zikim Beach.

On October 10, one terrorist — from the fifth speedboat — was killed near the oil facility by troops of the Bislamach Brigade’s 17th Battalion. One soldier was wounded in the exchange.

On October 11, Maglan commandos exchanged fire with two terrorists at a bomb shelter near the Shikma stream. Three soldiers, Master Sgt. Ido Kaslasi, 23, Master Sgt. Daniel Kastiel, 24, and Master Sgt. Itay Moreno, 24, were killed, and seven others were wounded. Both terrorists were killed.

In all, of the 38 terrorists who had tried to reach Israel via the sea, 14 were killed at sea, eight were killed as they reached the coast or in the beach area, and 10 were killed in later exchanges of fire, according to the probe. The final six were likely also killed, but the military was unable to fully confirm this.

Civilians murdered at Zikim Beach on October 7, 2023: Top: (L-R) Yuri and Svetlana Lisovoy, 63 and 61, Shahaf Krief, 17, Tal Keren, 17; 2nd row: Or Taasa, 17, Nadav Tayeb, 17, and Alina Vaisberg, 17, Arye Uzan, 68; 3rd row: , Eli Uzan 42, Benny Genish, 70, Avi Hasday, 53, Yulia Chaban, 24; bottom: Danil Kimenfeld, 64, and Vladimir Zhukov, 63, John Aslanov, 70, Robert Shaulov, 70, Abed Ziyadne, 26

The terrorists then murdered seven civilians in the bathroom: Yuri and Svetlana Lisovoy, 63 and 61, Shahaf Krief, 17, Tal Keren, 17, Or Taasa, 17, Nadav Tayeb, 17, and Alina Vaisberg, 17. In the bomb shelter, the terrorists murdered another seven civilians: Eli and Arye Uzan, 68 and 42, Benny Genish, 70, Avi Hasday, 53, Yulia Chaban, 24, Danil Kimenfeld, 64, and Vladimir Zhukov, 63.