Israel confronts shocking intelligence neglect as Hamas’ terror blueprint, long dismissed, resurfaces with devastating clarity.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has ordered the creation of a powerful, independent investigative task force to unravel one of the most consequential intelligence failures in modern Israeli history: the mishandling of “Jericho Wall,” Hamas’ meticulously crafted plan for mass infiltration and slaughter.
Although the terror organization’s blueprint was identified as early as 2018, Israel’s defense establishment—distracted by years of downplaying Hamas’ intentions and influenced by international pressure to “contain” the Gaza threat—never mounted a full, independent review. According to Channel 12 News, the decision follows the damning findings of the Turjeman Committee, which slammed the IDF for mishandling a critical intelligence document later proven central to the horrors of October 7, 2023.
The new investigative team will examine every stage of the intelligence chain: what Israel knew, who suppressed or minimized the warnings, why decisive action was not taken, and how Hamas—bolstered by Arab regimes and radical networks—managed to train openly for a devastating attack that the world encouraged Israel to ignore.
A pivotal component of the probe will focus on the courageous intelligence officer known as “S,” whose early warnings were disturbingly dismissed. She reported that Hamas was undergoing a dramatic ideological and operational shift, training explicitly for a large-scale invasion. Despite her alarm, the IDF failed to act, and the Turjeman Committee later condemned the military for failing even to properly investigate the whistleblower.
Zamir’s decision is particularly striking because he himself was exposed to the terror plan during his tenure as head of Southern Command. His willingness to reopen the file underscores the gravity and national trauma of October 7—and Israel’s determination to never again allow Hamas or its Arab backers to exploit Israeli restraint.
The newly formed investigative unit will reconstruct the full timeline leading to the massacre: early intelligence signals, field observations of Hamas’ military rehearsals, command-level briefings, dismissed reports, political pressures, and institutional blind spots. Above all, the inquiry seeks to answer the fateful question: How did Israel’s defense apparatus fail to recognize and act upon the explicit preparations of a genocidal terrorist regime?
Israel now moves toward a painful but essential reckoning—one that will expose how Hamas’ terror machine and its Arab patrons exploited every hesitation, every diplomatic constraint, and every ignored warning to orchestrate the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
