The Times of Israel March 3, 2025
Terrorists took Kfar Aza in an hour. Recapturing it took the IDF days probe finds;

1. First soldiers only arrived at the kibbutz, hours into October 7 onslaught,
2. failed to reach ‘young generation’ neighborhood before all kidnappings were carried out.

On the morning of October 7, 2023, some 5,600 terrorists swarmed into the unsuspecting Gaza border communities of Kibbutzim, murdering and abducting dozens of residents as IDF struggled to reach the area for several hours, in what would later become one of the longest battles of the onslaught.

1. terrorists on paragliders landed in the kibbutzim. They were able to fly over the border under the cover of the massive rocket fire.
2. At each entrance, a pickup truck arrived with several terrorists, drove into the kibbutzim and dropped off terrorists, in the neighborhoods.
3. Additional Hamas terrorists arrived on motorbikes.

Nukhba force terrorists from the Daraj-Tuffah and Sheikh Radwan battalions in Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade began their final preparations for the invasion and massacre late October 6 sometime after 9 p.m. Other Hamas terrorists were alerted once the attack was underway.

They would begin the first wave of the attack in the early morning.
Residents were left to fend entirely for themselves for almost the first two hours of the onslaught.

The army — plunged into complete disarray by the shock attack on dozens of towns and military posts — failed to come to their rescue as terrorists moved from home to home, kidnapping, brutalizing and massacring civilianswell into the afternoon.