The Israeli Army Chief of Staff has acknowledged accountability since essentially the beginning of the war, and it’s the reason why he’s stepping down next week, resigning in his role, something a lot of the Israeli public says the Israeli prime minister should be doing as well, Al Jazeera reports.

The former Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said that he also accepted some responsibility for those failures, underestimating, essentially, the power that Hamas had.

This is something the Israeli public already knew because those who had experienced the attacks on October 7 wondered why, first, the military response was so late and so little.

Nonetheless, the Israeli government has blocked the idea of a larger state inquiry. Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to answer any questions about it. He has said that when the conflict is over, some sort of state commission can come in and try to audit these failures that took place.