Army inquiry
Stuck in a ‘campaign between wars,’ Israel lost sight of its enemy, IDF probe finds
Inquiry finds that Israel believed that Hamas could either be contained or its capabilities gradually weakened without the need for a large-scale military operation
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Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel on October 12, 2023.
A series of flawed assumptions that Israel held about Hamas for years prior to its Oct. 7 attack preceded its devastating failure to adequately prepare for and defend against the deadly terror attacks by the Gaza-based terror group in...