Israel's war against Hamas | The alleged warnings from Egyptian intelligence before the attack from Gaza: "Something big is coming"

Israeli intelligence is in question. The Hamas attack is unprecedented, it was carried out on several flanks and the terrorist group managed to advance more than 20 kilometers into Israeli territory, knocking down a walled border at several points and there was hardly any immediate retaliation.. Faced with so many doubts about the effectiveness of one of the best intelligence services in the world, an Egyptian intelligence officer reveals that Israel did receive the warnings, but they were ignored.

The Egyptian official points out that Cairo repeatedly warned Israeli intelligence services that “something big” was going to happen and that it would involve direct action, although it did not specify details, according to The Times of Israel. He believes Israeli officials focused more on the Palestinian area of the West Bank and ignored the importance of the threat brewing from Gaza.

“We warned them that an explosion of the situation was coming, very soon, and that it would be big, but they underestimated the warnings,” the secret service worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose, told The Associated Press. the content of these sensitive conversations.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied that these warnings reached Tel Aviv: “No early message arrived from Egypt and the prime minister did not speak or meet with the intelligence chief since the establishment of the government, either directly or indirectly. “.

However, Egypt's Intelligence Minister Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu just 10 days before the Hamas attack, saying they would do “something unusual, a terrible operation,” according to the Ynet news site.

In fact, Yaakov Amidror, the prime minister's former national security advisor, called the Islamists' offensive “a big failure” and said that this episode shows that in reality “the [intelligence] capabilities in Gaza were not good.”

Israel's lack of intuition or knowledge of what was to come allowed Hamas to enter the Israeli state, kill 1,200 people, wound 2,000, and kidnap around 150, who now serve as bargaining chips to rebuke the counteroffensive. From Israel. Some military bases were taken with members of the Army sleeping inside, who were unaware of the Gazan operation, such as Maya, a 19-year-old Spanish woman enlisted in the Israeli army.