Israel’s military has dismissed a recent report suggesting it had prior knowledge of Hamas’s plans to attack across the border.
The New York Times had published a report last week that the Israeli military had known about the plan more than a year in advance following intelligence analysts’ briefings, but had dismissed it as aspirational.
“It’s ridiculous to try to promote any conspiracy theory,” Lt Col Jonathan Conricus from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a live briefing held on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Categorically, I can deny, of course, any intention for this to happen.”
But he also admitted that “the IDF failed to deliver what it was supposed to deliver – that is, protection and security – for Israelis [that day].”
The military will undertake an “extensive” review once it has “defeated Hamas”, he said.
“The professional inquiry will go through everything with a fine-toothed comb… We will get to the bottom of what happened, how it happened, and how it can be prevented,” he said.
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
