Activity of IDF forces deep in the Gaza Strip. 01.23.2024/IDF Spokesman
It was cold and rainy last night (Thursday) in Zichron Yaakov.
In the military section of the historical cemetery in the center of the settlement, another space was buried yesterday.
In the dark, there sits Orit, the mother of Major Roy Chapel, 25 years old in the Nahal Patrol, who fell on the first day of the war, on October 7.
"The IDF shares in the family's grief and will continue to accompany it," it was written next to his name on the IDF website - but the bereaved mother Orit, who is sitting next to her son's grave, admits to disappointments from the Ministry of Defense and the IDF. The last time she felt this way was yesterday - it almost knocked her over Orit sits in the cold next to her son's grave in protest. She protests that the IDF denies her access to the recordings of the battle in which Roy fell.
"This is a last memory of my son and evidence of his actions, they are chilling, and they are a source of comfort for me and nothing else," Orit tearfully explains the obvious - why they are so important to her and wishes to emphasize, "There is nothing classified in these recordings. They sat at my house and played them for me , there is no security risk in them and they cannot cause any damage beyond what has already been done to us, to the State of Israel."
According to her, she was not told why they would not be handed over to her, after they had already agreed with her that an IDF officer would come to her home in Zichron Ya'akov today and give them to her.
The bereaved mother demands the tapes of her son's last fight, Roy Chapel, January 25, 2024/Walla! System, Yoav Itiel
"I received written confirmation that the recordings had already been approved by the IDF spokesperson, were transferred to the casualty officer, she had already taken out the sections that should be transferred to me, and she was already on her way to me last night, and because of a 'crowded schedule' she rejected it and said she would arrive in the morning, and then suddenly she She writes to me that something 'was messed up with her timing' and that she would arrive later. I trusted her. In the afternoon it turned out that she 'received a request from the Chief of Staff's office not to release my son's recordings.'
So?
Suddenly?
At the last minute?"
"The recordings are a living testimony to the heroic performance of a three-person CPC - a liaison officer and a driver who will handle an event in a way that is hard to even imagine, while an entire headquarters is not functioning," she describes what can be heard from the recordings, "They were "Without any assistance, no helicopters, no fighter planes, not from battalions and not from other teams. The contact recordings show more than anything who my son was and what he did in the last 40 minutes of his life," said the mother.
According to her, "Except they are emotional and testimony for me and for his younger brother, they are important for the State of Israel and its residents so that they know about Roy's actions, that in the actions he did he practically saved the residents of Kibbutz Sufa, Hulit and Nir Yitzhak. He prevented penetration into the depths of the State of Israel. He had four encounters, he and his contact Tomer had fights and everything was recorded by the contact, they worked as one unit and were amazing."
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Major Roy Chapel, from Zichron Ya'akov, MP in the Nahal patrol, 25 years old in Nefolu./IDF spokesman
"The only reason I can imagine that they suddenly don't want to release the recordings is that it is October 7, a black day for very senior commanders and the senior leadership, that today they want to implement 'Together we will win' and 'All the best to the IDF,'" wondered Orit "
Probably the division commander and the head of the military and the chief of staff and all those who are at the head of the front who are also the ones who led to the horror and are managing the fighting do not want the media and public opinion to refer again to the 'failure' or the 'explosion' or whatever it is called that indicates the lack of preparedness theirs and their dysfunction."
"Roi deserves to be recorded for who he was, as a commander, and also as a son, as a brother and as a friend.
Without the recordings of the last battle, no such documentation would be complete," she added and swore: "I am waiting here in the cemetery for these contact recordings and I will not move from here until they reach me."
The response of the IDF spokesperson has not yet been received.
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