JERUSALEM: A plan by Israel’s navy to mount an inner investigation into the Oct 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Gaza struggle is drawing criticism from rightist authorities ministers, who need a extra sweeping evaluation of coverage in direction of the Palestinian enclave.
The armed forces chief, Lieutenant-Normal Herzi Halevi, knowledgeable the safety cupboard of the deliberate inquiry throughout a briefing on Thursday (Jan 4) night.
The briefing was meant to be closed however a few of it was aired by Israeli media, together with criticism by a number of ministers who had been current.
The Oct 7 rampage by Hamas militants, during which Israel mentioned about 1,200 folks had been killed and about 240 taken hostage, blindsided the nation’s superior safety equipment and uncovered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to criticism.
Not like another high officers, he has made no private admission of failure. He has spoken extra usually of the eventual want for a public reckoning with all Israeli decision-makers concerned in Gaza coverage, together with these predating his record-long time period.
Two far-right cupboard ministers mentioned they had been upset on the inclusion within the navy’s inquiry of Shaul Mofaz, a retired basic who was defence minister when Israel unilaterally stop the Gaza Strip in 2005 and razed Jewish settlements there.
