Israeli Intelligence Knew Attack Was Coming but Didn’t Know How Big Because It Stopped Monitoring Hamas Radio Traffic: Report
Israel had been lulled into the false belief that the threat of Hamas was contained, according to a new account of the country’s intelligence failures
Israel’s intelligence service Shin Bet knew Hamas fighters were active hours before the Oct. 7 attack — but failed to predict the scale of the incursion, in part because Israel no longer monitored the terror group’s handheld radio traffic, according to a new report.
The Israel Defense Forces Unit 8200 had stopped eavesdropping on the Hamas conversations because they believed it was a “waste of effort,” the New York Times reported on Monday.
The report chronicles the intelligence failures that left Israel unprepared for the massive Hamas attack, which saw thousands of terrorist pour into southern Israel, killing 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200.
Israel’s security chiefs concluded that the Hamas activity would likely result in a small-scale assault, the Times reported.
They ordered the Team Tequila counterterrorism unit to southern Israel, but decided not to wake up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the newspaper, which cited three unnamed Israeli defense officials.
The report in the Times echos much of the reporting by Israel’s Channel 12 news on Oct. 20, which also reported that the country’s security apparatus knew Hamas was planning something, but predicted it would be small.
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