Israel launches air strikes. 400 reported dead.

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The system was blinking red prior to Oct 7, and Netanyahu ignored it:

Israel had obtained intelligence of Hamas' battle plans in two iterations, once in 2018 and another in 2022, but the agency did not translate it into an actionable threat. A series of signs in the months leading up to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack was dismissed.

At 1:00 a.m., hours before the attack, the intelligence agency reported Hamas was conducting emergency preparedness — but also saw signs of restraint, and assessed that Hamas was not interested in an escalation at that time.

At 3:03 a.m., the Shin Bet alerted the country's security branches, including the Prime Minister's National Security Council, that several Hamas brigades were activating their networks of cellphones. In a message, the agency said that along with additional signs, "it could point to Hamas offensive activity." Forty-five SIM cards were gradually activated from the evening of Oct. 5 until two hours before the Oct. 7 attack, but agents dismissed it because a similar number of SIM cards had been activated during the same period one year before.

At 4:30 a.m., the Shin Bet chief briefed deputies about the worrying signs, and a team of forces was sent to Israel's south to prepare for a possible infiltration, but it was not sufficient to thwart the large-scale attack.

This, BTW, is from Netanyahu-approved investigations. He is refusing to allow an independent commission, with commission members appointed by their Supreme Court, to be formed, even though there is widespread public support for such a commission.

Netanyahu says that such a commission would be “biased” against him, and blamed (not making this up) “deep-state bureaucrats.”

This mini-me-Trump will be the doom of Israel yet.