A senior Israeli official acknowledged on Saturday that there had been “mistakes” in the intelligence services’ assessments prior to the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7.
Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said in a press briefing in response to a question about his statements about not expecting Hamas to launch an attack, “It is my mistake, and it reflects the mistakes of everyone who makes these (intelligence) assessments.”
He added, “We really believed that Hamas had learned its lesson” from the last war with Israel in 2021.