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By Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies
A failure of shared and not shared information between the Shabak (Shin Bet) and the IDF, the lack of accurate information and coordination, led to an avalanche effect with joint and individual under-valuations of the emerging threat from Gaza affected both the decision-making process and the lack of ability to respond to the Palestinian Hamas invasion of 7/10.
When the IDF submitted its initial 7/10 report in February 2025 it did not present a detailed list of failures but, instead, issued accounts on a daily basis of what occurred in separate incidents on kibbutzim and southern bases rather than present a comprehensive account about the total IDF failures across the whole of southern Israel, including who was responsible, and why it happened.
They provide individual daily explanations to each kibbutz, town, and army position, that left no one satisfied.
The Israeli public have yet to receive a complete explanation.
