Bereaved families forum: PM’s response to High Court proves he knows he alone is responsible for Oct. 7 failures

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the High Court that the prime minister alone is responsible for Israel’s security, the October Council — a forum composed of bereaved families demanding a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack — says the premier has unwittingly finally taken responsibility for the failures that led to the massacre.

Netanyahu, in his response to a petition against the appointment of his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, as the next director of the Mossad intelligence agency, stated that “The responsibility for the security of the state and its citizens lies with the prime minister, and him alone.”

“The Prime Minister of Israel effectively declared today that the responsibility for the October 7 massacre lies with him, and him alone,” the October Council declares.

“Today, for the first time, the prime minister is taking responsibility for 2,100 murdered people, 251 kidnapped people, and tens of thousands who were displaced from their homes,” it adds.