Israel’s security agencies are surprised by the development of Hamas’s intelligence capabilities

Israel Hum newspaper wrote: After the October 7 operation, a small sheet of paper was found around the town of “Mowalsim” on which the plan of attacking the town was explained in Arabic. . The top of the sheet showed the date of June 2023 (5 months before the operation) and next to it was written the words “Top Secret” and there was no mention of the date of the attack.

“They had access to information about very sensitive military centers that many inside the military do not know about.” This is the story of an intelligence officer of the Israeli army (Aman) about the day of the operation, a story with astonishment and surprise as to how Hamas had obtained that information.

Various dimensions of the Al-Aqsa storm operation on October 7, 2023 (15 Mehr) are still unknown, the war in Gaza and the severity of the crimes that occur in this strip, have not yet given the opportunity for many to deal deeply with that mysterious operation.

The Israelis’ surprise about Hamas’ intelligence power is not limited to the Al-Aqsa storm operation; Israeli media keep asking how, after 135 days of war, Hamas can still launch rockets, not from the south in Rafah, but most of the rockets are fired from the center of Gaza City, where the Israeli military is stationed. .

Since this day, Israeli circles say that Hamas has significantly increased its intelligence capabilities over the past decade, so that on the day of the Al-Aqsa storm operation, it had the statistics of all positions and the number of Israeli security and military forces around Gaza. had.

The Israel Hum newspaper writes about this: After the October 7 operation, a small sheet of paper was found around the settlement of “Mowalsim” on which the plan of attacking the settlements was explained in Arabic. The top of the sheet showed the date of June 2023 (5 months before the operation) and next to it was written the words “Top Secret” and there was no mention of the date of the attack.

According to Israel Hume, in addition to explaining how to enter the settlements and pass through the obstacles, the paper also contains the exact number and details of the Israeli forces stationed in the town of “Mowalsim” and it was written that there are about a thousand in the town of Mowalsim. Civilians, 20 reserve forces, 37 army forces and 27 infantry forces are present.

Israel Hume added: “We have suffered the biggest intelligence failure since 1948”.

Source: Fars