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Four senior intelligence officers believed involved in Oct. 7 failures recently promoted — report.

Four senior intelligence officers who are believed to have been involved in the failures that led to Hamas’s October 7 onslaught were recently promoted, Army Radio reports. The 4 lieutenant colonels, are heads of depts in IDF Southern Command’s intelligence, & part of their roles was to provide an intelligence picture of Gaza.

Army Radio says that the head of the terrorism department in the Southern Command intelligence was promoted to be the intelligence officer of the West Bank division; the head of the digital dept & the deputy to the head of the Southern Command intelligence was promoted to be a senior officer in a classified intelligence unit; the head of the targets department was promoted to head a unit in the Military Intelligence Directorate headquarters that handles terror funds; and the head of the so-called field department was promoted to a senior position in Unit 9900, the IDF’s visual intelligence unit.

Report comes days after it was revealed that the former commander of the Southern Command intelligence, who was removed from his role in March over an illicit relationship with a subordinate, was not fired from the military but instead sent to be the IDF’s representative in the National Cyber Directorate.
The IDF has not yet commented on the report.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...ed-report/