‘No one understood this’: Israeli security officials admit vast intelligence failure over Oct. 7 operation

Israel suffered a colossal intelligence failure on October 7, when Palestinian resistance movements launched a surprise operation into the occupied territories, according to several Israeli security officials.

According to a Jerusalem Post report on Friday, Israeli security sources estimate that Hamas leaders Mohammad Deif and Yahya Sinwar were “aware of the close surveillance by the Israeli intelligence community” and used “covert methods to communicate messages.”

“No one understood this, no Aman (Israel’s military intelligence), not Shin Bet (security service), nor Mossad,” admitted a security official.

“Otherwise they wouldn’t have left the border unguarded, with no basic response from the ground air.”

The report has quoted another Israeli security official as saying it is likely that the “confidential details, instructions, and overall sentiment were reserved for face-to-face conversations or other means.”

“In retrospect, the intelligence community didn’t grasp this. Not the Intelligence Corps, not the Shin Bet, nor the Mossad. No one took it into account.”

Meanwhile, a new investigation has found that the Israeli regime expanded the army’s authorization for bombing “non-military targets” in the besieged Gaza Strip after failing to overcome the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

The revelation was made in a joint investigation by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call, which included interviews with multiple current and former Israeli intelligence officials on Thursday.

It indicated that lower expectations on limiting civilian targets were combined with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate a wider range of targets, which was termed by one of the sources as a “mass assassination factory.”

Israel loosened rules to bomb ‘non-military’ targets after failure in Gaza war: Report

The Israeli regime reportedly expanded the occupation army

The investigation also stressed that Israel’s failure to prevent the October 7 attacks by Hamas had led to a major overcompensation since then and a willingness to inflict massive collateral damage.

According to media reports, over 300 Palestinian families have lost 10 or more family members in Israeli bombings in the past two months — a number that is 15 times higher than the figure from what was previously Israel’s deadliest war on Gaza, in 2014.

Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity over its incessant atrocities against Palestinians.

Tel Aviv also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.

More than 15,000 Palestinians, including at least 6,150 children and 4,000 women, have been killed in the Israeli strikes.

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