{"id":248178,"date":"2025-02-27T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/israels-military-lays-out-its-oct-7-hamas-attack-failures\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:00:09","slug":"israels-military-lays-out-its-oct-7-hamas-attack-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/israels-military-lays-out-its-oct-7-hamas-attack-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Military Lays Out Its Oct. 7 Hamas Attack Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli military on Thursday released the first findings from its internal investigations into the colossal military and intelligence failure of Oct. 7, 2023, describing how senior officers vastly underestimated Hamas and then misinterpreted early warnings that a major attack was coming.<\/p>\n

The inquiries attempted to answer the question that has confounded Israel since that day, when thousands of Hamas-led gunmen overran Israeli communities, army bases and a music festival: Where was the army?<\/a><\/p>\n

Israeli military officials said they spent tens of thousands of hours probing the military\u2019s intelligence-gathering and its subsequent response to the attack, in which about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 250 taken hostage, in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Survivors waited long hours<\/a> to be rescued by soldiers after an attack that began in the early hours of a Jewish holiday.<\/p>\n

Briefing reporters the day before publishing some of their initial findings, Israeli military officials, who could not be named under army rules, suggested that the failure stemmed from flawed assumptions about Hamas\u2019s capabilities and intentions, as well as what some military officials have called an \u201caddiction\u201d to precise intelligence, which was lacking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n