An extensive report by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed details of the events of October 7, which witnessed the Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 1,200 people, causing Israel to launch an ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip until today.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported that, early on October 7, when Hamas was making its last preparations before carrying out its expected attack in the morning, senior officials in the Shin Bet and the Israeli army were discussing “some important indicators of a possible attack,” but the newspaper adds that all these indicators "did not constitute a clear warning of war."

It continued: "In the period preceding the major attack, Hamas directly attacked surveillance cameras, communications poles, and other means of collecting information."

It explained that Hamas used “suicide drones, which blinded the Israeli army leadership and prevented it from forming a picture of the event.”

The newspaper pointed out that “due to blindness on the ground, the officers resorted to television broadcasts as well as to social media networks, especially Telegram channels, which included pictures and video clips of what was happening through information on social media sites, the army realized that it was a large-scale event.”

In response to the question, “Where was the Israeli army in the early hours of the morning of October 7?” Yedioth Ahronoth says that through its conversations with dozens of officers and commanders, some of whom are senior commanders in the army, it became clear to it that the latter suffered “the most difficult and embarrassing and angering moments.” 

It explains this by saying: “These moments include an almost failed command system, instructions to shoot at the cars of terrorists heading to Gaza, even if there was a fear of the presence of hostages in them, Marines who were sent into battle without the necessary equipment, old and unchanged orders, and fighter planes roaming the skies without striking, and pilots forced to enter WhatsApp groups to find out which targets to hit.”

"Everything was crazy, chaotic and improvised," it concluded.

Commenting on what happened, the Israeli army says: “These days, we are fighting the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip... The Israeli army will conduct a detailed and in-depth investigation to clarify what happened, when the operational situation allows it and will publish the results to the public.”