According to the newspaper, a senior Israeli military intelligence official described the detailed warning predicting Hamas’s October 7 attack as “an imaginary scenario.” Finance Timesquoting two knowledgeable sources.
The publication stated that soldiers serving on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip and analyzing data from the region sent a detailed report to the intelligence chief at the southern command of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) a few weeks before the attack.
The document contained specific warnings, including a plan by Hamas to blow up border posts in various locations, infiltrate Israeli territory and capture kibbutzim. In addition, military personnel reported to their superiors that Hamas was rehearsing to take hostages, according to data obtained from various videos.
The report’s authors were confident that an attack was inevitable.
Sources reported that the response of an intelligence officer who read the report was “This is an imaginary scenario.”
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
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