Occupied Al-Quds - Saba:
Zionist enemy media reported, citing an Israeli army investigation published Wednesday, that 1,000 soldiers and police officers failed to repel the attack by elite Hamas fighters on the city of Sderot on October 7.
The newspaper "Zaman Yisrael" reported that the city, the largest in the Gaza Strip, with a population of 38,000, was attacked by 40 elite fighters, who killed 53 Israelis in the city, including 37 civilians, 11 police officers, and two soldiers.
Unlike other areas in the Gaza Strip, there were no kidnappings in the city because the majority of the attacking force was killed. Thirty-nine of the 40 militants were killed, and only one was captured, in addition to a civilian from the Gaza Strip who arrived in the city after the elite forces entered.
The newspaper reported that investigations proved the army and security forces failed to repel the attack on the city in its first hours, despite the presence of the largest number of army and police personnel in the city, numbering approximately 1,000. Meanwhile, the command and control center of the Gaza Division was paralyzed at the height of the attack, leaving the soldiers surrounding the city unaware of what was happening inside, as the militants infiltrated through a breach in the fence near the memorial.
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