MKs approve releasing Comptroller report sections on Gaza tunnel threat

Lawmakers approve the publication of portions of a State Comptroller’s report on the security cabinet’s handling of the 2014 Gaza war that deal with the threat of Hamas attack tunnels leading into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Last month, the subcommittee on classified information, part of the parliament’s State Control Committee, voted unanimously to release to the public parts of the biting comptroller’s report related to how the security cabinet of top-level ministers handled itself during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, although no official date has yet been given for the report’s release.

MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid), who chairs the State Control Committee, says that as portions of the report approved for publication today contain operational intelligence, “information that can be used against us will be censored,” according to Hebrew media reports.

Elharar also said that the decision to approve for publication the parts of the report dealing with the tunnel threat was made following “the recommendation of the State Comptroller and in coordination with security officials.”

She also said that she hopes State Comptroller Yosef Shapira will publish the report in the next two weeks.