During last night’s meeting of the security cabinet, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar urged the immediate establishment of a state commission of inquiry to examine Hamas’s October 7 attack, according to Hebrew media reports.
Bar’s reported call to set up the panel was in response to a lawmaker in the ruling Likud party’s promotion of a conspiracy seeking to link protesters against the judicial overhaul to the atrocities carried out by the Gaza-ruling terror group.
“The public desperately needs this and the Shin Bet does as well,” Bar is quoted as saying by Channel 12 news. “This will put an end to all the lies and conspiracies.”
The reports do not say how ministers reacted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads Likud, has refused to set up such a commission — the most powerful and consequential investigative panel — to look into the failings that enabled the October 7 onslaught.
According to earlier reports, Bar was asked during the meeting by Transportation Minister Miri Regev of Likud whether there was any truth to the claims advanced by MK Tali Gotliv.
“It’s just a lie. What she did crosses a red line,” Bar reportedly responded.
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