The head of Israel’s military intelligence, Aharon Haliva, has admitted personal responsibility following Hamas’s devastating terror attack in Israel. “The war started with an intelligence failure,” Haliva wrote in a letter to his soldiers on Tuesday, the army said.
Aman’s secret service under his leadership failed to warn of Hamas’s terrorist attack, the letter said. “We have failed to fulfill our most important task and as head of military intelligence I bear full responsibility for this failure.”
There should be an investigation after the war
He announced a thorough investigation into the incidents. Then the consequences will be drawn. “But right now we have only one task in mind: fight back and win the war!” He is in the same vein as the head of the domestic Shin Bet secret service, Ronen Bar. He had already taken responsibility for the failure and before then an investigation was announced on Monday after the war.
Netanyahu has not yet taken responsibility
There is criticism from various quarters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unlike the heads of the intelligence services, has not yet taken responsibility, even though he holds the highest government office. He is accused of withdrawing troops from the Gaza area and sending them to the West Bank before the Hamas attacks.
On October 7, terrorists acting on behalf of Hamas carried out a massacre of Israeli civilians in border towns and at a music festival. It was the worst massacre in Israeli history. More than 1,400 people – most of them civilians – died during and in the following days. Palestinian militants also kidnapped at least 199 people that day.
Hamas misjudged itself
The intelligence services wrongly assumed that Hamas had no interest in a new confrontation with Israel at this time.
Source: Krone
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