Report: Oct. 7 victims, families, to organize civilian inquiry into massacre

6 July 2024, 8:42 pm

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Illustrative: Israeli soldiers walking next to the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Victims of Hamas’s October 7 massacre and bereaved families are organizing a civil investigative committee to probe the failures on the day of the tragedy, Channel 12 reports.

The panel will be formed on Wednesday, and will be made up of seven former senior officials in the defense establishment and judiciary, former mayors of northern and southern communities, and a former top police officer, the report says.

The commission of inquiry will summon witnesses from murdered families, freed hostages, and those injured in the devastating onslaught to give testimonies, seeking to pressure the government to form its own state commission of inquiry, Channel 12 says.

The panel will issue recommendations at the end of the process, the report adds.