Israel Hayom newspaper quoted senior Israeli military officials as saying that there is procrastination in presenting investigations into the events of October 7, 2023, even though many of those investigations are ready to be presented to the Israeli Chief of Staff, and have been submitted to all lower levels.

The newspaper reported that the official position of the Israeli army justifies this postponement by the tense operational conditions in the north during recent months, in reference to the war on Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing to form a "special" commission of inquiry into the failures of October 7, with the aim of avoiding the formation of an official commission of inquiry, which a broad public in Israel has been demanding since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said last month that “I do not have a drop of confidence in the court and I am not prepared for the commission of inquiry to be headed by people who have a serious conflict of interest, such as those whose positions toward the government we know and whose conclusions we know in advance.”

"The greatest disaster that has befallen us since the establishment of the state cannot be ended by a decorative committee, nor in any other new context aimed at evading responsibility. Netanyahu, enough fabrications, enough procrastination. As the head of the (security) apparatus, forming an official commission of inquiry into the October disaster is your moral duty toward the dead, the bereaved families, the wounded, the kidnapped, and the entire nation," said Benny Gantz, head of the National Camp bloc.