The Excessive Court docket of Justice cleared for publication that Lt.-Col. Aryeh Amidror was the Gaza Division’s intelligence officer on October 7, 2023. Amidror is the son of Yaakov Amidror, a former head of the Nationwide Safety Council who has commented on varied tv channels all through the warfare.
Lt.-Col. Amidror is taken into account to have firmly rejected the chance that Hamas would perform its raid situation, generally known as the “Jericho Wall” plan, which was finally carried out in full on the morning of the October 7 assault.
Regardless of makes an attempt by W., a noncommissioned officer from Navy Intelligence’s Unit 8200, to warn Lt.-Col. Amidror that she had recognized indicators that Hamas was making ready for a raid and that the plan was operational, the division’s intelligence officer dismissed her issues and instructed her it was a “fully imaginary situation.”
By the top of September 2023, W. had change into more and more alarmed and once more contacted commanders within the Gaza Division after figuring out uncommon exercise inside Hamas. Lt.-Col. Amidror, nevertheless, instructed her a raid plan was unlikely and determined to debate the problem after Sukkot.
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