News - Middle East: Israel suffered a colossal intelligence failure on October 7, when Palestinian resistance movements launched a surprise operation into the occupied territories, according to several Israeli security officials.

According to a Jerusalem Post report on Friday, Israeli security sources estimate that Hamas leaders Mohammad Deif and Yahya Sinwar were “aware of the close surveillance by the Israeli intelligence community” and used “covert methods to communicate messages.”
“No one understood this, no Aman (Israel’s military intelligence), not Shin Bet (security service), nor Mossad,” admitted a security official.
“Otherwise they wouldn’t have left the border unguarded, with no basic response from the ground air.”
The report has quoted another Israeli security official as saying it is likely that the “confidential details, instructions, and overall sentiment were reserved for face-to-face conversations or other means.”
“In retrospect, the intelligence community didn’t grasp this. Not the Intelligence Corps, not the Shin Bet, nor the Mossad. No one took it into account.”
Meanwhile, a new investigation has found that the Israeli regime expanded the army’s authorization for bombing “non-military targets” in the besieged Gaza Strip after failing to overcome the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
The revelation was made in a joint investigation by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call, which included interviews with multiple current and former Israeli intelligence officials on Thursday.
It indicated that lower expectations on limiting civilian targets were combined with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate a wider range of targets, which was termed by one of the sources as a “mass assassination factory.”