Hamas attack
Israeli army confesses: Have “completely failed”
The Israeli army has admitted that it did not anticipate the bloody Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 - the brutality of which continues to horrify.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen "We could not have imagined such a scenario," admitted a military representative before the publication of the investigation report. The Israeli army had not succeeded in protecting the people of Israel. The militant Palestinians, led by the radical Islamic group Hamas, had "surprised" Israel, not only in terms of the size and scale of the attack, but also its "brutality". The army had been "overconfident" and had misjudged Hamas' military capabilities.
The military had assumed in the period before the massacre that Hamas was not interested in a large-scale war and was not preparing for one, Israeli media summarized the results of the investigation. Intelligence material had been misinterpreted for years despite warning signals. Intelligence officials had also failed to question their own assumptions, the reports continued.
It was an attack in waves
According to the investigation report, the Hamas attack took place in three successive waves. In the first wave, "more than a thousand terrorists" from an elite Hamas unit entered Israel, while at the same time a massive rocket attack was launched from the Gaza Strip. The second wave comprised 2,000 fighters and in the third wave hundreds more fighters and several thousand civilians entered Israel. "In total, around 5,000 terrorists infiltrated Israeli territory during the attack," the army explained.
Overall, the army was not prepared for the surprise attack, it added. The army had believed that the border fence to Israel could not be overcome. Troops along the border with the Gaza Strip had therefore been reduced.
Background
On October 7, 2023, hundreds of fighters from Hamas and allied Islamist groups invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli reports, a total of 1218 people were killed, mostly civilians, in several villages, at a music festival and as hostages in the Gaza Strip. Following the Hamas attack, Israel took massive military action in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas health authority, at least 48,365 people were killed. The UN has classified this information as reliable.
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