Commission of inquiry blames ‘arrogance’ of Israeli leaders for October 7 failings

An unofficial commission of inquiry set up by Israeli survivors of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel has slammed the Israeli Prime Minister and security establishment for failing to anticipate or prepare for the deadly incursion.

The commission published a report on Tuesday accusing Israeli leaders under Netanyahu of “arrogance and structural blindness” which “led directly to Israel’s unpreparedness and the failure to protect its citizens”, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reports.

In addition to Netanyahu, the 70-page report points blame at former Israeli prime ministers, police and military leaders and Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, according to Haaretz.

Chaired by former Tel Aviv District Court Judge Varda Alshech, the inquiry held months of hearings after the Netanyahu government refused to establish an official probe.

Four killed in Israeli strike on school shelter in Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli fighter planes have killed four people in an attack on the al-Tabin school shelter for displaced people in Gaza City. An unknown number of people are still missing and others have been injured, according to the report.

Al-Tabin shelter was the site of an Israeli attack in August the killed more than 100 people, many of whom were women and children.

The earlier Israeli attack on the school was found to have been carried out to inflict the greatest number of casualties as it was timed to coincide with dawn prayers, which was attended by many civilians sheltering at the school.

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A reporter on Tuesday finally told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken the truth, asking if Netanyahu was taking the US for a ride under the guise of a special relationship between the two countries.

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Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah begins

It is now 4am local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday in Lebanon and Israel where a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, announced by the United States and welcomed by Lebanon and world leaders, has now begun.

Ceasefire will hold if people of Israel, Lebanon treated as equals: analyst

Rami Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, told Al Jazeera the ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon “has been worked on very carefully” and so should be expected to succeed, at least in the initial stages.

Whether the deal holds up in the longer term will depend on “if the Lebanese people and the Israeli people both feel, with evidence, that they’re treated as equals,” he added.

This will depend on whether the United States, France and the United Kingdom are willing to “drop their colonial ways and work to make sure that both Lebanese and Israelis are protected from each other… with diligent monitoring and diligent UN action on the border.”

In other words, it likely won't :/

Hezbollah couldn’t stop the genocide in Gaza – Marwan Bishara

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says that despite Hezbollah launching attacks on Israel since October 2023, the Lebanese armed group has not been able to reach its stated goal of ending Israel’s devastating war on the Gaza Strip.

“Regardless of Hezbollah’s intentions and planning and capacity to project power and to launch rockets, in the end of the day Hezbollah could not stop the genocide in Gaza,” he said.

The problem is the US' ironclad support for genocide. It could have worked without that. Yet all they did is funnel more US tax money to Israel.

Israeli military spokesman warns Lebanese civilians not to return home as ceasefire begins

Avichay Adraee has warned Lebanese civilians against returning home despite a ceasefire coming into effect, saying Israeli authorities “will inform you of the safe date to return”.

“With the ceasefire agreement coming into effect, and in accordance with its provisions, the [Israeli military] continues to be prepared in its positions in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman said.

“Do not move towards the villages that the [Israeli military] evacuated or towards [Israeli military] forces in the area. For your protection and the safety of your families, avoid reaching the area,” he added.


_{Displaced people who fled their homes due to Israeli evacuation orders sit along a road in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 26}