’Israel’ wasn’t Ready for 2014 Gaza War- Army Official
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"Israel" should have better prepared for Hamas' use of tunnels in the 2014 Gaza war, a senior army official said Sunday, ahead of the release of a key report on the conflict.
Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, the official said "Israel's" military has sought to learn lessons from the 2014 war, including by better preparing troops to deal with tunnel warfare.
The official's comments come ahead of a report by the Zionist entity's comptroller on the conflict expected to be released before the end of the year.
A draft of the report reportedly found that "the security establishment did not have a comprehensive plan for dealing with Hamas' offensive tunnels."
The army has conducted its own internal review of the conflict, which also found that the military was unprepared for the tunnel "threat."
The official, who has read the internal review of some 182 pages completed several months ago, said: "I think that we could come to this war... better than we came to it."
"I think the [military] did not do a good enough job to close a gap between the problem and the solution," he said.
Special engineering units have since been bolstered, the official said. Efforts have also been made to increase collaboration between units.
"Israel" is also reportedly building an underground wall around Gaza to block tunnels.
"We tried to learn and to teach ourselves what we need to do," the official said.
During the war, the occupation's military found 32 tunnels, including 14 that extended from the Gaza Strip into the occupied territories, according to a UN inquiry into the conflict.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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