Updated 2024-02-25
2023-11-23 IDF elite intel officer warned about Hamas attacks, ignored – report junior Israeli officer in the elite 8200 intelligence unit warned over Hamas’s plan of a mass infiltration event and was ignored by her commanders, N12 reported on Thursday evening. The officer claims to have warned for the past 12 months about a scenario that involves a mass intrusion event by Hamas, foreshadowing what occurred on October 7. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/idf-elite-intel-officer-warned-about-hamas-attacks-ignored-report/ar-AA1kqDIV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=79e8c56e4c1c46a5944fec70532f327f&ei=18
2023-10-12 Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Knows Exactly Where Hamas Is When you live under an empire of lies you’ll be asked to believe a lot of very stupid things. The dumbest thing we’re being asked to believe this week is that Israel’s intelligence services are simultaneously so incompetent that Saturday’s Hamas attack took them completely by surprise, but also so competent that all the buildings they’re destroying with their relentless bombing campaign on Gaza are directed solely at Hamas. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-intelligence-suddenly-knows
2023-10-10 How Hamas duped Israel as it planned devastating attack A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its devastating attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East’s most powerful army.
Saturday’s assault, the worst breach in Israel’s defences since Arab armies waged war in 1973, followed two years of subterfuge by Hamas that involved keeping its military plans under wraps and convincing Israel it did not want a fight. While Israel was led to believe it was containing a war-weary Hamas by providing economic incentives to Gazan workers, the group’s fighters were being trained and drilled, often in plain sight, a source close to Hamas said.
In one of the most striking elements of their preparations, Hamas constructed a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza where they practiced a military landing and trained to storm it, the source close to Hamas said, adding they even made videos of the maneuvers. “Israel surely saw them but they were convinced that Hamas wasn’t keen on getting into a confrontation,” the source said. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-israel-was-duped-hamas-planned-devastating-assault-2023-10-08/
2023-10-08 Hamas Attack Raises Questions Over an Israeli Intelligence Failure American officials said Hamas had achieved a complete tactical surprise, reflected in a death toll of at least 700 Israelis. The Palestinian militant group sent hundreds of fighters through breached walls, breaking through with bulldozers and then killing civilians and soldiers in shooting sprees that went on for hours.
None of Israel’s intelligence services had specific warning that Hamas was preparing a sophisticated attack that required coordinated land, air and sea strikes, according to an Israeli defense official and American officials. While the attack also surprised many Western intelligence agencies, they do not track Hamas’s activities as closely as Israel or Egypt do. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/us/politics/israel-hamas-intelligence.html
2023-10-07 How did Israel and the U.S. miss what Hamas was planning? “This is Israel’s 9/11. Not since 1973 has there been such a catastrophic intelligence failure in Israel,” said one U.S. intelligence expert. A senior U.S. official said, “We were not tracking this.” The Hamas assault by air, land and sea also raised questions about why U.S. intelligence agencies apparently did not see it coming, experts and former intelligence officials said. U.S. officials said that if the Israelis knew an attack was imminent, they did not share it with Washington.
“This is Israel’s 9/11. Not since 1973 has there been such a catastrophic intelligence failure in Israel,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, who worked for 26 years for the CIA, where he specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia. Israel’s intelligence services have long been seen as some of the most capable in the world, with an array of human intelligence, eavesdropping and other technical means blanketing the West Bank and Gaza. “It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said Polymeropoulos. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/israel-us-miss-hamas-was-planning-rcna119335
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