Yakov Katz

This was their elite Nuhba force.

They were also lower level people, just random people who decided to come across and pillage once the border was wide open.

But Hezbollah, different caliber.

And if we send everybody down south, it's just... What time is that decision made?

So 6.30 is when the attack potentially commences.

Only about 9, 10 o'clock do they start to understand, okay, we see what's going on down there.

Can we safely assess that Hezbollah is not coming as well?

But that's two, two and a half hours.

Right, so that's two, two and a half hours in, three hours in.

But what time is the political higher-up, Netanyahu and the senior command?

They're already at this point at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

And they're making those decisions and they're gathering the intelligence to understand that for sure, Hezbollah is not coming and they're beefing up forces on the North, just in case they're misreading that situation too.

At the same time,

They're trying to assess what's happening in the south, but because of the lack of communication, because of what the success of Hamas is low tech attack, it's hard to understand what's happening.

And here was a problem with the military, right?

The air force, for example, which is very painful because they could have made the difference.

They don't know, or they didn't know then how to function.

in an operation where they don't have somebody on the ground telling them where to go and what to do.

And that's something that has now changed, right?

It's not easy, and you know this as a naval officer.