Israeli Elections Campaign and Security Failures

Hello and good evening. Two and a half weeks before Israel's elections, after

the collapse of the warning campaign, the left is launching a new campaign.

It has enlisted former military secretary Avi Gil, and tonight we

reveal for the first time his conduct on the night of October seventh.

Noam Amir, we begin with your report.

That's right, Magi, under the headline, at least according to the promo,

the conversation with the man who woke the prime minister at 6:29,

tonight we reveal details about the conduct of the prime minister's military

secretary on the night of October seventh,

Major General Avi Gil, the man who received throughout

the night several very, very interesting intelligence images.

At least one image should have made him wake the prime minister during the night,

certainly before the massacre unfolded, and the big question

is why didn't that happen? So let's take a look at the timeline

of the military secretary's actions during the night.

Note, Magi, as early as 3:55, Avi Gil

Receives a text from the military secretariat's intelligence officer in the operational chat about

signs indicating, I repeat, signs, SIM cards

that were activated and Hamas officials going down into the tunnels.

Gil does not relay this information to the prime minister and essentially

allows him to keep sleeping. At 6:15 a.m., 14 minutes before

the attack began, the Shin Bet gave Avi

Gil a specific warning about the imminent attack. He also does not

relay this information to the prime minister and essentially does not wake him.

When the attack began at 6:29 a.m., only then did Avi Gil

wake Netanyahu, but he gave him no

intelligence information, only the fact that the attack had begun, although he

had extensive information that had reached him during the night.

At the same time, at this point, he writes in the

military secretariat's small WhatsApp group that there is an attack and writes

a very grave statement there. The intelligence officer replies

that it corresponds with the information he had conveyed hours earlier.

There is only one big question mark: to whom did he relay this information?

because this information did not reach the prime minister, since everyone here agrees, at least, on

one factual detail, at 6:29, that was the only time

when Netanyahu

was awakened. Note, Maggie, only at 6:44, a quarter

of an hour after the attack began, did the military secretary remember to report

to Netanyahu all the intelligence information he already had in his possession,

namely, information he had held since 3:55.

So tonight, and I understand tomorrow in the weekend newspapers,

a major campaign is set to be launched, a new campaign, a weekend

campaign before the elections.