"I have no choice but to praise Hamas for the deception it perpetrated on us," former IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said in a recording published by army radio on Sunday.
"They used disturbances and humanitarian concerns to lull us to sleep and prepare the attack – and they succeeded," he added, regarding the terrorist organization's atrocities they committed on October 7, 2023.
"In all the military exercises we've done and in all the discussions we had, we didn't think that 5% of what happened [that day] could happen," he added.
