Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7 massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report.
The revelations come from research for an upcoming book Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, written by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, who writes for Haaretz.
I’d really like to know about the frequency of false alarms.
If you’re not responding to every alarming intelligence brief with a full mobilization you literally have the blood of children on your hands
Okay, so possibly 500 full mobilizations per day seems like a great idea to you?
There is an interview with an IDF soldier who was on duty at the wall on the morning of October 7, who testified to the Knesset about how they got the order an hour before the attack to NOT go out for any reason until 9:00 am. So when the sirens went off around six they couldn’t go check it out like they normally do.
See the embedded X video; the whole thing is fire, and includes a recording of the order his unit was given to stay where they were, but at the 5:30 mark, right at the end when he’s saying why he wants answers about the order he was given, he says,
He was doing that, gladly. They all were. And that’s exactly how you deal with false alarms: you treat every single one as the real thing. Until Bibi sends down orders that you don’t, anyway.