The casino shuttle boat, burnt to the hull. 'I just want to make sure they're okay, and you know, it's hard, because you want to try to save them,' Jandali's mother, Hala Sahloul, said. Jandali's family called 911 and helped people wading to shore, through water 8 to 10 feet deep. 'People started jumping out one by one, and the fire got really quick, really fast,' neighbor Bakr Jandali said.

One of those people succumbed to their injuries, officials said on Monday morning. The name of the deceased person has not been released. The shuttle boat was carrying 50 people to a casino ship when it became engulfed in flames forcing passengers and crew members to jump into the water on one of the coldest days of the season.įifteen people were taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries such as chest pain, smoke inhalation and other injuries, authorities said. One person has died from their injuries after a casino shuttle boat caught fire on Sunday afternoon on the Gulf Coast in Port Richey. It comes after reports in Israeli media that military and intelligence officials had dismissed highly-detailed reports of Hamas's planned attacks on kibbutzes along the border prior to the 7 October raids.PORT RICHEY, Fla. Yaakov Amidror, a retired Israeli general and former adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, was quoted by the NYT as saying: 'The army does not prepare itself for things it thinks are impossible.'

Soldiers rushing into battle were only armed for brief combat, and helicopter pilots were told to follow the news to pick their targets, the investigation said. The IDF did not have any plan to respond to a 'large-scale Hamas attack', the newspaper said, in a report detailing the apparent failings of the military in response to Hamas's sweeping raids of southern Israel.Ĭurrent and former soldiers and officers told reporters that they 'made it up as they went along'. Israel's military was so poorly organised that soldiers communicated with each other via spontaneous WhatsApp groups and relied on social media posts for their information during the 7 October attacks, a New York Times investigation has found.

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