 Ber put the responsibility of the tactical defeats on the failures of the intelligence services and on the " absence de <unk> <unk> sur les <unk> fronts . " He also points out the badly trained immigrants , the defective equipment , and the difficulty for a new army to succeed a first operation targeting to capture a defended area that was organised by advance . He gives the first estimates for the losses : 50 deaths in the 32nd battalion of the Alexandroni brigade and the 25 deaths in the 72nd battalion of the 7th brigade ( composed mainly of immigrants ) . 
