Lapid demands publication of report on Gaza war failures

23 January 2017, 2:42 pm

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Speaking to his Yesh Atid Knesset faction, party leader Yair Lapid calls for the government to release the findings of a State Comptroller report into failures surrounding 2014’s Operation Protective Edge, the 50-day war with Gaza-based fighters that saw dozens of Israeli soldiers killed.

“They need to release the report for the families of the fallen, they deserve to know what happened there. There’s no room for politics when you are talking about the security of soldiers and well-being of residents of Gaza-area communities,” he says.

Lapid accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting to bury the report, which reportedly damns the government for failing to prepare for the threat of cross-border tunnels, for political reasons.