Shocking mistakes: Israel's secret service grants failure to attack Hamas

Shocking mistakes: Israel's secret service grants failure to attack Hamas

The Israeli domestic secret service Shin Bet admitted its blatant defects in the run-up to the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. This attack, which is considered one of the worst terrorist acts against Jews since the Holocaust, demanded over 1,100 dead and numerous injuries. According to information from krone.at , the intelligence agency refers to long -term political decisions that enabled Hamas to significantly expand its military skills. In particular, this includes financial resources from Qatar that flowed into the Gaza Strip, as well as the inadequate processing of intelligence information that indicated upcoming attacks.

Shin Bet boss Ronen Bar commented down and confessed: "We failed". Despite warnings of unusual activities by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the secret service did not react quickly enough. An internal investigation report also shows that information about attack plans has not been adequately treated. In the years before the attack, the cooperation between Shin Bet and the Israeli army was inadequate and there was a lack of clarity in the distribution of tasks. The military preparations were also assessed as "too confident", as also reported.

false assessments and omissions

The investigation emphasizes that Shin Bet informed about possibilities to combat Hamas, but the government practiced ignorance or rejected concrete measures. It was also found that the intelligence service ran a policy of economic accommodation compared to Hamas in 2018 to 2021, although such concessions only strengthened the militant organization. Despite some warning signals and a tense situation in the run -up to the attack, the Israeli government remained idle. Bar said: "We did not prevent October 7th. If we had done differently, the massacre could have been prevented." This goes back to deep systemic problems within the secret service, which should now be addressed through a comprehensive reform in order to be better prepared in the future.