The News Freedom
Chandigarh, November 7
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged he bears some responsibility for the intelligence failures that resulted in his country being caught by surprise by the October 7 Hamas attack that his office said killed more than 1400 Israelis, in an exclusive interview with ABC News. Anchor David Muir of ABC News pressed Israel PM on the point in the interview that aired on “World News Tonight” on Monday night.
Netanyahu had previously blamed his military and security chiefs in a social media post but deleted it after backlash and apologized in a subsequent post. ” The first task of government is to protect the people and, clearly, we didn’t live up to that. We had a big, big setback,” Netanyahu responded. “We’re not going to evade — the responsibility of the government is to protect the people and, clearly, that responsibility wasn’t met.” Israel Prime Minister said in an interview.
When Netanyahu was asked “Do you believe that you should take any responsibility?” he responded, “Of course, that’s not a question. It’s going to be resolved after the war. I think there’ll be time to allocate that.”
Meanwhile, as per a report in The Guardian, at least 10,328 Palestinians – including 4,237 children – have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday. The number of people wounded has been increased to 25,965, according to the health ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qudra. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued in Gaza, as per the report in the newspaper.