Anurag Kumar
The national security counsel to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel received no concrete warning, including from Egypt, of the October 7 attack by Hamas from Gaza. Tzachi Hanegbi stated that the chief of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service was called in for an unusual briefing at 4:00 a.m. on that day, 2.5 hours prior to the attack, regarding new intelligence information.
He stated, as reported by the news agency Reuters, that this did not justify mobilization.
The comments were made after the Israeli military issued orders for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents residing in Gaza City in preparation for a possible ground attack by Israel. Following reports from the United Nations that it had been given a warning to evacuate 1.1 million people residing in northern Gaza, the Israeli government issued the command.
According to the head of the United Nations’ humanitarian relief operation, Martin Griffiths, the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which was previously dire, is now “quickly becoming untenable.”
Martin Griffiths stated that the acts and rhetoric of Hamas terrorists and Israel over the past several days are “extremely alarming, unacceptable,” and added that civilians and civilian infrastructure need to be protected.
Following the publication of a report that suggested Hamas may have plotted their deadly strike in Israel more than a year in advance, this news came to light. Sky News reported citing documents that were believed to have been found on the bodies of combatants in the conflict zone. These documents were reportedly labeled with the phrase “Top Secret.” According to the information presented in the study, the fact that the month of October 2022 was printed on the front cover of the collection of documents suggests that preparations for the assaults were completed at least one year in advance.
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It is alleged that Israeli soldiers and emergency responders discovered the documents, which were written in Arabic. According to the article, “They suggest Hamas militants planned to target civilian populations and take hostages,” the report claimed, adding, “The plan, however, was not successful with militants reportedly pushed back by local security – and it’s believed that nobody was killed inside the kibbutz.”
