Hamas’s Years-Long Surveillance, Israel’s Intelligence Failures Exposed

Palestinian fighters infiltrated Israel from aggregate directions, utilizing assorted forms of transport, including parachutes. (Photo: via societal media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli media revealed Hamas’s years-long quality efforts and Israel’s failures starring up to the October 7 operation.

Israel’s Channel 12 has revealed that Hamas was monitoring Israeli leaders and information officers adjacent the borderline with Gaza astatine slightest 7 years earlier the October 7 absorption operation. Meanwhile, the Shin Bet quality bureau confirmed that it was investigating wherefore it had not received accusation from its collaborators successful Gaza regarding the planned operation.

The transmission aired, for the archetypal time, “surveillance camera footage and delicate documents seized from computers” allegedly utilized by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.

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One of the documents aired by Channel 12, dated November 2020, showed that Hamas “had the IP addresses and serial numbers of each of the information cameras successful the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and the Ashkelon formation areas, including Kibbutz Kfar Aza,” which was targeted during the operation.

Another papers among the worldly showcased by the transmission showed “a semiofficial database of information guards” successful assorted areas on the Gaza border.

“We spot very, precise precise and precise elaborate quality …,” Shalom Ben Hanan, a erstwhile apical Shin Bet official, told Channel 12, according to The Times of Israel.

Hanan said the “resolution, the details that are each truthful precise, and the very, precise wide deployment of galore quality assets is what is truthful surprising.”

Hamas was besides “tracking section leaders and information officials successful confederate Israel good before” the operation, the study noted.

Collaborators ‘Not Cooperating’

Channel 12 besides said that Shin Bet’s probe has revealed that immoderate of the agency’s collaborators successful Gaza were deceiving Israel and not cooperating with it, according to an Al Mayadeen report.

The study said Israel acknowledged the trouble of infiltrating Hamas done quality agents, noting that Hamas carried retired contiguous executions of anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.

Criminalizing Resistance – Tactics to Dehumanize Hamas are Doomed to Fail

Investigations confirmed a terrible quality nonaccomplishment and a important decision for Israel successful confronting the onslaught from the Resistance successful Gaza, reported Al Mayadeen, starring elder officials successful the subject and information agencies to resign.

The Times of Israel said the Israeli service had “conducted respective interior investigations to recognize what went incorrect earlier and during” the October 7 operation. However, the authorities “has refused to name a authorities committee of enquiry and has opposed immoderate probes that could see looking astatine governmental failures surrounding the devastating astonishment onslaught past year, its lead-up, and its aftermath,” the study added.

Ongoing Genocide

The ongoing Israeli battle connected the Gaza Strip, which began connected October 7, 2023, has led to a humanitarian situation of unprecedented scale. As the decease toll among besieged and starved Palestinian civilians continues to emergence daily, Israel is presently facing charges of genocide against Palestinians earlier the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, astatine slightest 45,541 Palestinians person been killed, and 108,338 wounded successful Israel’s ongoing genocide successful Gaza starting connected October 7, 2023. The toll is expected to emergence further, with astatine slightest 11,000 radical inactive unaccounted for, presumed dormant nether the rubble of their homes crossed Gaza.

An Israeli subject chopper fires instrumentality guns astatine Palestinians and their homes successful bluish Gaza. pic.twitter.com/oJ3H7zBxzW

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The war, which Palestinians telephone “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” began aft a subject cognition carried retired by Hamas connected Israeli territory. Israel reports that 1,200 of its soldiers and civilians were killed during the archetypal onslaught connected October 7. However, Israeli media person raised concerns that a important fig of Israeli casualties were caused by ‘friendly fire’ during the assault.

Humanitarian Disaster

Human rights organizations, some Palestinian and international, person reported that the overwhelming bulk of the casualties successful Gaza are women and children. The ongoing unit has besides exacerbated an acute famine, with thousands of children among the dead, highlighting the severity of the humanitarian disaster.

As wintertime grips Gaza, families look not lone freezing acold and hunger, but the heavy isolation of a satellite that turns its back.

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The warfare has displaced astir 2 cardinal radical from their homes crossed Gaza, with the bulk of the displaced forced into the already overcrowded confederate portion of the Strip. The colonisation successful Gaza remains trapped successful the ongoing conflict, with small entree to basal necessities specified arsenic food, water, and aesculapian care.

(PC, Al Mayadeen)