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2023-12-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Sinwar last year publicly hailed TV dramatization of attack on Israel as ‘what we are preparing’
Shin Bet and Mossad were busy organizing anti-Bibi protests, while their American counterparts were spying on Donald Trump and concerned parents. Hopefully they're embarrassed enough about the consequences of their inattention to focus on their actual jobs from now on.
[IsraelTimes] A TV drama series broadcast last year on Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
TV that featured forces of Evil infiltrating Israel, was publicly hailed by Hamas’s Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
chief Yahya Sinwar as "an inseparable part of what we are preparing," Channel 12 news shows.

Hamas TV broadcast the series during Ramadan in late spring 2022, the Israeli TV report says. It dramatized an attack on Israel featuring the use of white pickup trucks, the disabling of Israeli communications, and targets including kibbutzim and IDF bases — including the Re’im base where the IDF Gaza Division is located. It also showed soldiers being kidnapped, and the raising of a Paleostinian base at an IDF base.

Along with footage from the show, Channel 12 shows a clip from a televised award ceremony held in Gaza later in 2022, at which Sinwar handed out prizes to the show’s producers.

"This series is an inseparable part of what we are preparing — the great preparations we are making with our brothers in Izz-e-din al-Qassam," he is shown saying. Sinwar cites "the weaponry that they are producing" and their "intelligence gathering."

Hamas’s military wing, he says, "is absolutely planning for the liberation and return."

TV report finds more pre-Oct 7 info on Hamas plans, IDF chiefs’ consults hours before assault

[IsraelTimes] In the latest report on information and assessments that should have enabled the Israeli military leadership to prevent the October 7 Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-led onslaught, Channel 12 says that the intelligence officer of the IDF Gazoo Division in July 2022 prepared a presentation setting out "The Mass Invasion Plan of Hamas."

One diagram from the presentation shows some 20 Nukba Hamas terror squads invading southern Israel from Gaza. The presentation said the terror squads would be accompanied by engineering teams to breach the border fence and defenses in multiple places. The document reportedly included the sentence: "This invasion constitutes the gravest threat that IDF forces are facing in the defense [of Israel]."

Channel 12 further reports that IDF Military Intelligence held a discussion three months before October 7, at which an officer identified as Brig-Gen. Peh. concluded: "We have tried, but have not succeeded. We cannot say how [Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya] Sinwar will act, and therefore commanders in the field should take the necessary precautions."

On October 1, the commander of the Gaza Division ordered a situational assessment, which found a "sharp increase in drills by Nukba forces." Six Hamas battalions were drilling once or twice a week, the report on that assessment said. It specified which battalions were drilling, including several in northern Gaza and one in Khan Younis.

Nonetheless, according to Channel 12, the intelligence officer of the division summed up: "In the tension between the economic benefits for Hamas and the continued disturbances [that were taking place at the Gaza border], it seems that, at the moment, things are heading toward an arrangement and a calming of the disturbances."

On the night of October 6-7, Channel 12 further reports, email was sent from an IDF base on the Gaza border about an imminent attack, describing "certain signs coming from Gaza." At the same time, the Shin Bet also saw signs that something was up.

At around 3.30 a.m. on October 7, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was awakened by his officer manager and updated on the various signs. He convened a situational assessment with the head of IDF Operations and the Southern Command chief some 90 minutes later.

After discussing the signs of a possible imminent attack. Halevi asked for more information and ordered that the Israel Air Force be updated. He also ordered that the intelligence information be checked — and checked from a perspective skeptical to the prevailing assumption that Hamas was not interested in war.

This, says Channel 12, may have marked the first crack in that conception of Hamas being deterred, but it was not sufficient for Halevi to have ordered preparations for a major incident.

Israel had multiple sources of information on Hamas’s drills and other preparations for an assault in the weeks ahead of October 7, reportedly including a 2022 Hamas attack plan.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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#1 Look that's happening to Gaza now, and understand why nobody in Israel took the idea seriously.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-06 05:34||   2023-12-06 05:34|| Front Page Top

#2 No excuses. The level of incompetence and lack of imagination was staggering.
Posted by Spomonter Speaking for Boskone8031 2023-12-06 06:18||   2023-12-06 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 No AI searching social media?
How primitive.

What I witnessed at the FBI will be the agency's Waterloo
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-06 07:24||   2023-12-06 07:24|| Front Page Top

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