The head of Israel's internal security service "Shin Bet," Ronen Bar, announced that he takes responsibility for the failure to prevent the attack executed by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israeli towns. He added in a statement: "Despite a series of measures we took, we unfortunately could not issue an appropriate warning on Saturday to prevent the attack." Bar continued: "As the person who heads the agency, the responsibility for this falls on me; there will be a time for investigations, but now we are fighting."