Even after the IDF withdrew, residents found terrorists still surrendering inside the moshav.
Members of the local security squad in Moshav Yated saved their community from invading Hamas terrorists on October 7, as the IDF lagged in its response, according to findings from an army probe published Wednesday morning.
No residents of the Gaza-adjacent agricultural community were murdered in the massacre. The army credited the quick action of Yated’s armed local emergency response team — together with civilian residents, including a local mother — for preventing a mass slaughter in the community.
Just ten minutes after the first rocket launches from Gaza and the breach of the border fence, Yated’s security coordinator sprang into action. He activated the emergency response squad, instructed armed residents to patrol the community’s perimeter, opened bomb shelters, and locked the moshav’s gates.