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Israel’s domestic security department took responsibility on Tuesday for failing to hear warning signs of planned Hamas attacks, ahead of the devastating strikes of the militants on October 7, 2023.

Posted a few days after the Israeli military conducted a similar inquiry, the bet conclusion was released a few days later, and found that senior officials had greatly underestimated Hamas and misunderstood early warnings of the major impending attack.

The report released on Tuesday included only a decrypted summary, leaving behind unknown undisclosed materials. But even the summary makes the agency’s mistakes clear.

The summary says the Hamas raid on southern Israel is planned to arrive at the intelligence agent’s table in 2018 and again in 2022, but the agency does not see the warning as a meaningful threat. As a result, it did not include it in the exploring future confrontations of militant groups, the agency said.

While Shin Bet said this was serious about Hamas, it acknowledged that it did not respond properly to early signs of the attack plan, or to late signs of impending bleeding.

Israeli authorities said they are publishing these findings even if the attacks are serious, even if they classify some of the reports as categorized. About 1,200 people were killed that day, about 250 people took hostages, triggering a war in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has refused to conduct an independent review of the events that led to the deadliest day in Israel’s history. Instead, it allows every security agency in the country to conduct an investigation despite public requests.

Netanyahu said in a debate in Israel’s parliament on Monday that he supported the establishment of a committee to investigate the Hamas attack, but suggested that such inquiries would inevitably produce biased findings aimed at politically.

“I’m not stopped by fabricated investigations and political pursuits,” he said. “I will continue to stick to the facts. I will continue to ask a balanced inquiry committee to achieve the truth.”

Mr. Netanyahu’s boycott of the investigation and demand for resignation are in stark contrast to the actions of some other Israeli officials.

Military Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, who resigned this month, was responsible for what he called a “terrible failure” to prevent attacks. Shin BET chief Ronen Bar told Israeli news media on Tuesday that he did not intend to resign until all hostages seized from Israel were deported, but admitted that the attack could have been avoided.

Shin Bet also stated in its report that it failed to fully coordinate with the military and establish clear responsibilities. “This is not what we expect from ourselves and the public,” the agency said.

Meanwhile, unlike the recent military reports, the new BET report directly points out that government policies are factors in attacks. It said the government allowed Hamas to accumulate weapons through Qatar and raise funds for its military sector. It noted that the government was reluctant to adopt an “offensive” initiative, including targeting Hamas leaders in Gaza.

The agency also cites the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention and “considered that Israeli society has weakened people’s perceptions.” Prior to the attack, Mr. Netanyahu proposed a plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, sparking protests nationwide, with many Israelis accusing Mr. Netanyahu of conducting the Hamas attack and viewing domestic unrest as a factor in the radicals.

Shin BET’s report, based on interviews with Israeli, Arab, European and U.S. officials, and a review of documents and evidence from the Israeli government, responded to the findings of an article published by The New York Times several weeks after the attack.

Mr. Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on Shin BET’s findings. Israeli news media reported that the office issued an informal statement to a small number of local journalists that was “attributed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s internal circle.” The statement said the intelligence agencies raised “answer-answer-answer-is-is-a-questionable” and did not match the “size of the organization’s huge failure.”

The Prime Minister’s Office has raised a series of failures by intelligence personnel, including the attack “clearly” that Hamas wants to avoid an assessment of Israel’s movement. It accused Mr. Bell of falling.

“On the night of the attack, Shin Eun’s chief felt it was not suitable to awaken the Prime Minister, which was the most basic and obvious decision one could imagine,” it said.

Johnatan Reiss Contribution report.