POBNEWS24, Desk report Oct 7, 2023 : ‘How it happened, we can’t even imagine’ – this is how Israel’s intelligence officials responded when asked why Israel could not anticipate a Hamas attack despite having such a reputation, security and surveillance equipment. He said, they did not get advance information about this.
It is 6:30 am local time on Saturday. One after another, rocket attacks started in Israel from the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters crossed the border into Israeli-controlled territory. But the Israeli forces had no idea that such an attack could happen.
None of Israel’s intelligence agencies, Mossad, Shin Bet, and Defense Force intelligence, knew that Hamas was going to launch such an attack. To the Israelis, this is very surprising. Again, some of the intelligence agencies may have received advance information about the attack but failed to act quickly accordingly.
Latest situation on that, At least 198 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said, after Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel which responded with air strikes.
The ministry said up until 4:20 pm (1320 GMT) there were “198 martyrs and 1,610 wounded with different injuries” in the conflict.
