The Israeli army releases investigation into October 7 attack:

Here are the key findings of the Israeli army’s probe into the failures that paved the way to the Hamas-led attack, as reported by Israeli media:

The military:
1. misread Hamas’s intentions,
2. believing that the Palestinian group did not pose a significant threat
3. and was not interested in a large-scale war with Israel.

The army assumed that Israel’s high-tech border fence would have thwarted any threat.

The Military Intelligence Directorate dismissed information showing Hamas intended to launch a wide-scale attack against Israel over several years as unrealistic.

The directorate assumed Hamas’s late leader Yahya Sinwar was not seeking a major escalation with Israel.

The probe assessed that Hamas decided to launch the attack in April 2022
By September the same year, it was at 85 percent readiness and in May 2023 it decided to launch the attack on October 7

On the eve of the attack, army’s top officials identified five signs of unusual activity but dismissed the threat of an imminent assault.

The perception that Hamas did not want war guided decision-makers away from taking action that might have thwarted the attack.