Where Was the Israeli Military When Hamas Attacked? - NYT
Where Was the Israeli Military When Hamas Attacked? Sunday December 31 st , 2023 at 6:13 AM A Times investigation found that troops were disorganized, out of position and relied on social media to choose targets. Behind the failure: Israel had no battle plan for a massive Hamas invasion. Sign up for the Israel-Hamas War Briefing. The latest news about the conflict. Far beneath the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, in a bunker known as The Pit, commanders were trying to make sense of reports of Hamas rocket fire in southern Israel early on the morning of Oct. 7, when the call came in. It was a commander from the division that oversees military operations along the border with Gaza. Their base was under attack. The commander could not describe the scope of the attack or provide more details, according to a military official with knowledge of the call. But he asked that all available reinforcements be sent. At 7:43 a.m., more than an hour after the rocket assault began and th