Third anniversary of the October 7 attack: Zamir acknowledges the army's failure, Herzog calls for an investigation

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1. 5 Oct 2026, 07:28 On the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir acknowledged that the army failed in its supreme mission of protecting Israelis, pledging to continue the investigation, draw lessons and prepare for future threats. He described the scenes of that day and the transformation of settlements into battlegrounds, noting that Israel has since waged a prolonged battle on near and far fronts. The Israeli General Staff Forum held a memorial ceremony and a moment of silence at 6:29 at the Zikim base in the Gaza envelope, as part of the national memorial day for the October 7 massacre, where Zamir stressed the need to investigate and apply the lessons learned, and pledged to continue monitoring threats and striking them firmly.
2. 5 Oct 2026, 12:27 Israeli President Isaac Herzog took part in the memorial ceremony for the victims of the October 7 attack and said that the warnings and alarming indicators must not be ignored, stressing the necessity of an investigation.
3. 5 Oct 2026, 16:16 The official Israeli ceremony marking three years since the October 7 attack, held in the Greats of the Nation square on Mount Herzl, turned into a platform that reopened the file of failure and accountability. Israeli President Isaac Herzog, in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressed that what happened must be investigated, without explicitly calling for the formation of an official investigation committee, while Netanyahu did not address the investigation issue in his speech and focused on the continuation of the war.

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