Israeli analysts: Underestimating the Palestinians is behind our failure in the Al-Aqsa flood. Israel and disdain, and perhaps a degree of contempt, for the Palestinian factions.

Netanyahu's government relied on a faulty intelligence policy towards Hamas. The Israeli army in 2016 simulated a mass attack by Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel. “The picture of what happened on October 7 is beginning to become clearer, and as the war on Gaza prolongs, more details of dozens of operational investigations conducted by the Israeli army, the Shin Bet, and the office of Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Engelman will be revealed. These are the details.