Israeli Intel Ignored Hamas Preparations for Ground Attack: Report

Haaretz says the army leadership refused to believe Hamas could break through the border fence and ceased preparations for a possible Hamas ground attack

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an investigation on 9 May, providing further details of the alleged intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to launch Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October successfully.

The investigation concluded that leaders in the army refused to consider or prepare for the possibility of a Hamas ground invasion of Israel and instead focused on the threat from Hamas missile attacks. ....

Haaretz states that during the Hamas attack on 7 October, the “border fence was revealed to be semi-imaginary” and that fighters from Hamas’ elite Nukhba brigade breached it at 44 different points.

According to the Haaretz report, the Israeli army held two exercises in previous years to prepare for the possibility of Hamas breaching the border before the fence’s completion.

The first was in 2016 and involved responding to a Hamas raid that would use cars, motorcycles, and paragliders to breach the fence into Israel and then move toward the southern settlements (kibbutzim), around which army soldiers were deployed.

However, a security source who participated in the exercise stated that it was soon stopped without any clear plan to prevent such an attack.

“After a few hours, Edelstein decided to stop when the ‘enemy’ had already reached the Ad Halom junction in the north [near Ashdod] and others had reached Kiryat Gat in the south – without the Southern Command and the Gaza Division knowing how to respond,” the source said.

Despite the failure of the exercise, the army leadership opposed holding a second training in 2019 and insisted on focusing on Hamas’ missile capabilities.

Any officers warning of a possible Hamas ground invasion were either ignored or ridiculed...

Analysts also observed suspicious behavior on the night of 6 October, just hours before the attack...

Shortly after 11 pm, a soldier from Military Intelligence burst into the Gaza Division’s operations room, shouting, “Ali Al Qadhi is behaving suspiciously!” Haaretz says the soldier was “calling out a name familiar to everybody there – Qadhi, a Hamas operative...commander"...

The warnings led top Israeli army and intelligence officials to hold emergency meetings early the next morning, including one in person at 3 am attended by Shin Bet chief Ronan Bar. However, the military leadership issued no warnings to the soldiers...

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