ISRAELI SOLDIERS TESTIFY WE WERE ORDERED TO 'STAND DOWN' HOURS BEFORE OCT. 7
"We received orders on Oct. 7 to cancel all patrols along the Gaza border from 5.20 a.m. till 9.00 a.m"
There was a shallow intelligence thread that something might happen at the border, so the generals were afraid of abduction and kidnapping situations and ordered the patrols to stand down.