IDF chief set to receive initial findings of probe into top brass actions in the hours before Hamas massacre

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi holds an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba, October 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi holds an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba, October 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Israel Defense Forces is set to present to Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and the General Staff tomorrow the initial findings of its probe into the functioning of the top IDF echelons on the night of October 6-7, 2023.

The General Staff will then discuss the findings.

According to Channel 12, the probe indicates that Halevi should have held a wider situational assessment that night, rather than narrower consultations, which would have better highlighted what was going on, and could have led to different, better decisions in the hours ahead of the Hamas invasion and massacre.

Nonetheless, the TV report says, the probe — which has not yet been completed — says there was no definitive information that the Palestinian terror group was about to carry out its brutal onslaught.

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