Rapport om Gazakriget 2014

En rapport om Gazakriget 2014 publiceras för allmänheten i Israel  idag.
Rapporten verkar ge stort utrymme åt hotet från Hamas tunnelnätverk som inte tagits på allvar inför kriget. Därför fanns det inte heller klara regler för hur armén  skulle svara på hotet och attackerna som kom genom tunnlarna under gränsen mellan Israel och Gaza.
Det verkar också ha funnits en hel del oenighet bland beslutsfattarna om hur kriget skulle föras och information nådde inte alltid fram till dem som borde ha fått del av den.

The Times of Israel skriver:
Blistering Gaza war report scorches Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz over tunnel failures
Comptroller’s long-awaited findings about 2014 operation confirm army was unprepared for Hamas’s tunnels, prime minister failed to keep security cabinet in the loop.

The reports found significant gaps in the military’s intelligence in the lead-up to the war, as well as a lack of clearly defined operational plans for how to destroy the tunnels. Those failings may have led, the report said, to the unnecessary deaths of Israeli soldiers during the 50-day conflict.


But the Prime Minister’s Office bore the brunt of State Comptroller Yosef Shapira’s criticism, for its failure to sufficiently brief members of the security cabinet about the subterranean threat.


... In the time since the operation, the army and government have put into practice some, but not all, of the recommendations made by Shapira in his reports. Notably, the military has put a greater emphasis on tunnels, naming them as a primary threat in army chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot’s “IDF Strategy” paper.


“The tunnel issue is a top priority for the IDF, and the military has already begun putting the majority of the report’s comments and suggestions into practice,” the army said in response to the comptroller probe.