A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out.

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  • Rottcodd@lemmy.world
    276·
    1 year ago

    I suspect this is damage control - that Israel can no longer pretend that they didn’t know in advance, so they have to pretend that the failure to act to prevent the attack was a mistake, rather than a considered decision made specifically so that Hamas would provide them with an excuse to invade and occupy Gaza.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
      01·
      1 year ago

      Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. Also, I doubt they’d intentionally kill 1200 of their own to do so.