In total, around 5,400-5,600 Hamas invaders penetrated Israel on October 7, 2023, in 114 spots along the Gaza border fence. This included 37 easier areas to open and 77 actual new breaks in the fence,

Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza.

Unlike the Israeli military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has not launched a comprehensive commission to review the failures of Oct. 7, 2023.