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Israeli safety authorities ignored an intelligence doc final September that predicted the Hamas assault of Oct. 7, an Israeli state-run media outlet reported on Monday.
The report, revealed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, claimed the doc, dated Sept. 19 – about three weeks earlier than the assault that Israel has described because the worst in its historical past – was ready by the navy intelligence unit 8200.
The outlet cited unnamed Israeli safety sources saying the doc “was recognized to intelligence management and, at the very least, to the Gaza command” of the Israeli navy.
The report stated the doc “described intimately a collection of coaching workouts carried out by Hamas elite models, which practiced raiding navy positions and kibbutzim (small Israeli communities), kidnapping troopers and civilians, and even directions on detain and guard the abductees whereas contained in the Gaza Strip.”
In response to the report, the doc outlined the preliminary step of the train as “creating breaches in a simulated Israeli military place in-built Gaza that mimics websites close to the Strip,” with 4 brigades every assigned a special location.
The report stated Israeli intelligence analysts who noticed the drill then “outlined the following steps after infiltrating Israeli territory and seizing ahead positions,” noting that the directions referred to as for handing over any captured troopers to brigade commanders, with an anticipated 200–250 hostages.
The doc additionally reportedly detailed the targets of the navy raid the models educated for, together with “command posts, operations facilities, Jewish temples on navy bases, the air drive headquarters, communications headquarters, firing positions, and soldier housing areas.”
The report stated the elite brigades got a last order “to completely confirm the situation upon departure and never go away any paperwork behind.”
The Israeli broadcaster concluded that not solely have been the Southern Command and the Gaza Division unaware of Hamas’ kidnapping plan, however the doc additionally “detailed the circumstances underneath which the hostages could be held, together with directions for the abductors on act in excessive instances, and underneath what circumstances the captives might be executed.”
The report famous that regardless of the warning, Israeli safety authorities ignored the intelligence doc.
‘Main intelligence failure’
It added that previous to the outbreak of the conflict on Oct. 7, the protection institution had boasted a couple of new “sensible” safety barrier accomplished two years earlier than the Hamas assault, that includes above- and below-ground technological techniques.
Many senior Israeli political, safety, and navy officers later described the Hamas assault as a “main intelligence failure.”
Flouting a UN Safety Council decision demanding a right away cease-fire, Israel has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 assault by Hamas.
Greater than 37,300 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them ladies and kids, and greater than 85,000 others injured, in keeping with native well being authorities.
Over eight months into the Israeli conflict, huge tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and drugs.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to instantly halt its operation in Rafah, the place over 1,000,000 Palestinians had sought refuge from the conflict earlier than it was invaded on Could 6.
*Writing by Mohammad Sio
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