An Israeli intelligence transient had warned army officers weeks earlier than Oct. 7 that the Palestinian resistance group Hamas was making ready for an assault, in keeping with the Israeli public broadcaster Kan.
The Israeli army’s alerts intelligence unit drafted the transient in September, lower than a month earlier than the Hamas incursion that sparked Israel’s brutal warfare on the Gaza Strip, Kan reported on Monday.
It mentioned the Unit 8200 intelligence doc included particulars of elite Hamas members coaching for hostage-taking and plans for raids on army positions and Israeli communities in southern Israel.
The transient mentioned they had been aiming to take lots of of hostages, Kan reported.
“The expected number of hostages: 200-250 people,” the transient mentioned in keeping with Kan.
The unprecedented Hamas incursion resulted within the deaths of 1,194 folks, largely civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli official figures.
Militants additionally took 251 folks hostage, 116 of whom stay in Gaza together with 41 the military says are useless.
Israel’s genocidal warfare in response has killed at the very least 37,347 folks within the Gaza Strip, largely ladies and kids, in keeping with the territory’s Health Ministry.
According to Kan, citing unnamed safety officers, the transient was recognized to intelligence officers within the army’s Gaza Division and Southern Command.
Israeli politicians have rebuffed requires an intensive investigation into intelligence failures surrounding the incursion and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted any official probe ought to wait till after the warfare, now in its ninth month.
The Israeli army nonetheless instructed AFP it was “investigating the events” of Oct. 7, with a probe being “actively carried out” and would later be made public.
Source: www.dailysabah.com