A report says a senior reservist IDF officer probing the Gaza Division’s failures surrounding Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, was booted from reserve duty last week.
Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Solomon has told those close to him that it is because he found fault in the higher echelons of the military, Channel 12 says. His probe has not yet been made public.
He reportedly found that the chief of staff did not speak to the Gaza Division commander a single time on October 7, and that senior IDF commanders did not function until early that afternoon.
Solomon, a member of the hawkish HaBithonistim group, also reportedly charges that the situation in the IDF today is no less grave than it was on the eve of the assault.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit says in response that Solomon worked on the probe for a year with full support, that the end of his reserves service is unrelated to the probe, and that the probe is still going on.
It adds that the probe will be presented to the relevant communities and the public when finished, as all probes are.
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