Times of Israel
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is dismissing the army’s internal investigation into its handling of the fighting at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, arguing that such probes ‘are a grave mistake by the chief of staff.’
‘The Israel Defense Forces and those at its head should be concerned with only one thing and that is to win the war, defeat Hamas in the south, Hezbollah in the north, and return the hostages,’ he insists, arguing that a leadership which failed cannot investigate itself.
‘These investigations are rightly met with complete distrust within the army as well as outside it,’ he continues, stating that only a new military leadership will be able to extract lessons from what happened on October 7.
Reacting to the results of the army’s probe last week, Kibbutz Be’eri said that it was not enough to restore their trust in the army and called for a state commission of inquiry to be opened.