____________________________________________ 3 IICC Perspectives influenced the campaign," but this time the situation was massively, completely different. *** In October 2023, D. was planning to end his military service and retire in November, after serving in his final role as the chief intelligence officer of the General Staff Exercises Directorate. On Saturday morning, immediately after the Hamas attack, he arrived at his base in Julis, in Israel's north. D.: "At one time I had been the intelligence officer for the 162nd Division, which was now mobilizing for combat near the Gaza Strip border. I summoned the current intelligence officer to Julis and gave him everything the division and its brigades needed to concentrate forces and begin fighting. "At that stage the division's mission was to take responsibility for a specific sector in the south and restore the status quo ante. Division 162 is one of the IDF's two spearhead divisions, trained for offensive missions to exert decisive force. That's what they know how to do, but this time it was a defensive mission, a mission to restore the status quo ante. No one had ever trained the division for such a scenario, and we had to improvise new intelligence processes. We instituted a new working method, not intelligence for decisive victory, intelligence for restoration. Enemy photo map of the Gaza Strip, that helped in saving lives of IDF soldiers. (source: IICC)
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