ISLAMABAD: Israel's military chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir dismissed several senior officers over their failure to prevent the October 2023 attacks by Hamas.
Following an investigation, Zamir said late Sunday he had fired and also reprimanded several senior commanders over the military's failure "to protect the civilians of the State of Israel."
Israel's military chief on Nov. 10 called for a "systemic investigation" into the failures that led to Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack, as the government dragged its feet on establishing a state commission of inquiry on the matter.
'A significant step'
Zamir made the call following the publication of a report by an expert committee he himself had appointed, which, according to him, marks the conclusion of the military's internal investigations into the Oct. 7 attacks.
"The expert committee's report presented today is a significant step toward achieving the comprehensive understanding that we, as a society and as an organization, require." Zamir was quoted as saying in the report.
“To ensure that such failures never recur, a broader understanding is needed — one that encompasses the inter-organizational and inter-hierarchical interfaces that have not yet been examined."
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