300 dead, 1600 injured and still counting

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American/Israeli hostages released, Judith Tai Raanan, 59, and her daughter Natalie Raanan, 17:

On Saturday October 7, they were visiting Tamar in the Gaza border community of Nahal Oz, staying in a kibbutz guest apartment that is located in the first row of residences, closest to the fence and entrance gate.

Judith was born in Israel, grew up in Holon and later traveled to the United States, where she met Uri Raanan, Natalie’s father. Natalie was born in the United States and her parents divorced when she was in kindergarten. After the separation, Judith became drawn to the Orthodox Chabad movement and started living observantly. She works as a sterilization technician in hospitals and is also a professional beautician. But above all, the family says, she is an artist – a talented painter who paints in bold and vibrant colors.

American Hostages Released by Hamas: This Is Their Story

Chabad movement is one of the largest Hasidic groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world.


Way too close for comfort:



Google maps has this tiny town moderately blurred out.


The kibbutz was founded in 1951 as the country's first Nahal settlement. It was initially referred to as Nahlayim Mul Aza (Nahal soldiers across from Gaza). In 1953 it became a civilian socialist community. 2021 population was 471. The kibbutz grows carrots, cotton and wheat, and operates a dairy with 600 cows. Past sources of income include a metal works factory that produced industrial-sized ratchet bits and a high tech firm, OzVision, that links security cameras to the Web. In February 2023, a team from Israel’s National Infrastructure Committee came to inspect the area in preparation for building a 4,250 acre solar panel field along the border.

Living on the Edge in Kibbutz Nahal Oz

Some members of the community expressed their concerns with calls for aid, as with DICE Corporation’s Co-President Avi Lupo. “Those who know me, know how connected I am to Israel and how the horrible attacks have left me devastated. What you may not remember is that there is an even deeper connection from my days with OzVision. The company is located on the Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just across from Gaza. As you saw on the news, the kibbutz was hit hard with brutal killings and kidnappings of children, women, and senior citizens. Homes were destroyed.”
Security Systems News

Last tweet was Jan 26, 2017 and website is dead:

OzVision is a video and IoT data management, analytics and storage company, The Company's cloud-based solution enables real-time transmission of high-quality video in a very robust way (>99.99% uptime) with zero latency.

OzVision's cloud platform ingests data streams (including video, audio, sensors, meta data and log-files) from millions of data sensors, such as cameras, DVRs/ NVRs, set-top boxes, smart thermostats, smart plugs, connected doorbells, and routers. The cloud platform provides live streaming, device management, data indexing and storage, and a foundation for analysis for a variety of business and residential purposes (such as facial recognition, anomaly detection or motion tracking). The services are offered through partner applications running over the OzVision data store.

OzVision archived

I'm not sure what happened to OzVision. Went out of business or were acquired (Swann Security of Australia?), but they had a serious security flaw in their camera software that gave anyone access to your camera surveillance back in 2018.

On a small Israeli military base at Nahal Oz, next to the Gaza border, there's a windowless room where soldiers peer 24 hours a day at video screens. They're watching live footage from cameras monitoring the Gaza Strip, controlled by the militant group Hamas.

Soldiers see a lot – a damaged home getting slowly repaired after the 2014 war, donkeys guided by farmers, suspected Hamas militants on motorcycles. But they can't see underground, where tunnels beneath the border may pose the biggest threat to Israel here.

In the observation room, the soldiers monitoring the screens are all female.

"Girls do it the best," says 20-year-old Orr Israeli, a commander. "They have this commitment. They feel obligated to the job, the mission, without tak[ing] their eyes off the screen."

Each watches three screens. Each screen has five views. They flip between black-and-white, color or heat-triggered pictures. They zoom in and out. As the commander explains the mission, a siren goes off in the room.

When a Gazan gets too close to the border fence, a soldier marks the spot with a red diamond on the screen. That makes the siren blast. The data goes up the command chain or out to soldiers in the field.

"These sirens, you jump," says Israeli, the commander. "This is so everyone can see this in one spot, on one map, so everyone can know where it is."

A 24-year-old field commander and a 20-year-old soldier take me to a border post and pull out their binoculars. The military, citing security, won't let them say even their first names.

"You can see from here the Hamas post, the white post," the soldier says, indicating a white tower 300 yards away.

He hands me his binoculars. I see a red tractor. "That's a farmer," the soldier says. Then he points out a man with a motorcycle, sitting in an olive grove. The Israeli soldier says that man is a "Hamasnik," meaning a member of Hamas.

Militants sometimes plant bombs near the border, targeting Israeli army vehicles that go on both sides of the fence. Tunnel teams try to drill underneath the fence and into Israel.

In 2014, the commander says, "A tunnel came out right here." He points a few yards away. "Eight Hamas militants came out during the war. They can be anywhere."

A camera is permanently stationed at this spot along the fence. A machine gun is, too. Both are controlled by Israeli soldiers back in the observation room.

The View Of Gaza, On 24/7 Video

Ok, in 2016 if so much as a single guy wandering around on the Gaza side who was even suspected of being Hamas received a sniper round through the leg. So, at some point after 2016 or probably somewhere around 2020-2023, did the female human Watchers get replaced with AI...that failed??


The stories just keep getting better...the old thumbdrive narrative...sigh...

Scoop: Israel says it found Hamas files with instructions for making cyanide-based weapon

The Israeli military found a USB key with instructions for the production of a "cyanide dispersion device" on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to two Israeli officials and a copy of a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by Axios.

The big picture: It is not clear from the file whether Hamas had any serious or operational plan for using makeshift chemical weapons or whether the group had attempted to produce them.

Next will be the Hamas Labtop from hell that somehow survived the Israeli carpet bombing found under 10 tons of rubble that happened to have a nuclear hardened SSD.