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IDF spokesman says societal rift may have played part in Hamas decision to attack
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Hamas terror group may have launched its onslaught on October 7 partially due to its belief that Israeli society was in chaos, due to the controversial judicial overhaul.
“These things will become clear in the in-depth investigation that we will carry out, but the answer is that it is likely that the characteristic of a rift [in society], the readiness of the army, perhaps in [Hamas’s] perception, was one of the characteristics” the terror group took into account, Hagari says in response to a question at a press conference.
“I think that now in the fighting… [Hamas] is meeting a determined, functioning army,” he says.
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