Egypt provided intelligence to Israel warning ‘something big’ was about to happen, and Israel decided not to act on it, according to a source contacted by the Associated Press.
The claim was made by an anonymous Egyptian intelligence official, whose nation is said to be a frequent mediator between Islamist militant group Hamas and the state of Israel.
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big,” they told the Associated Press. “But they underestimated such warnings.”
The source said Israeli officials were overly focused on the West Bank and ignored the threat of Gaza.
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Israel rejected the report, saying it was “totally fake news.”
“The report to the effect that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a message in advance from Egypt is absolutely false,” the prime minister’s office posted to X.
“No message in advance has arrived from Egypt and the Prime Minister has neither spoken, nor met, with the head of Egyptian intelligence since the formation of the government, neither directly nor indirectly.”
The Prime Minister's Office:
The report to the effect that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a message in advance from Egypt is absolutely false.— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 9, 2023
Yet it was acknowledged as an utter failure on Israel’s part to not foresee the attack operation.
“This is a major failure,” said Yaakov Amidror, PM Netanyahu’s former national security adviser. “This operation actually proves that the (Israeli intelligence) abilities in Gaza were no good.”
Retired Israeli general Amir Avivi attributed the failure to Israel’s lack of a foothold in Gaza. Without that, there is little way for Israel to gather intelligence besides using technological means, which are easy to for Hamas personnel to undermine.
“The other side learned to deal with our technological dominance and they stopped using technology that could expose it,” said Avivi. He claimed that Hamas has “gone back to the Stone Age,” opting to not use computers and phones and meeting in sensitive guarded rooms so as to become harder to wiretap.
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