JERUSALEM: The Israeli parliament approved a bill in its first reading on Monday to set up a commission of inquiry into the security failings that led to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
“The purpose of the proposed law is to bring about a full, thorough, and independent investigation of the events of the... October 7 massacre” and the wars that followed, an explanatory note to the bill said.
The bill passed its first reading in the Knesset, Israel’s 120-seat parliament, with 59 votes in favor and none against or abstaining.
Opposition lawmakers, who want a different kind of commission not appointed by politicians, boycotted the vote.
Under the proposed law, the commission’s six members would be appointed by a two-thirds majority of Knesset members. In the absence of an agreement, however, three members would be appointed by the ruling coalition and three by opposition lawmakers.
