The Israeli security source also wonders how music festivals were organized this weekend so close to the Gaza border.
Israeli army spokesman Maj Nir Dian no admits that the extremist organization Hamas managed to trick Israel into believing that the organization was not interested in fighting the strongest army in the Middle East.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, many other representatives of Israel and Hamas also share their views on how Hamas succeeded in the most destructive attack since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 this past weekend.
According to a Hamas representative, the organization tried over several months to convince Israel that it was more interested in the Gaza economy than in the war. After 2021, Israel issued thousands of work permits to Palestinians to work in Israel or the West Bank, where wages can be 10 times higher than in Gaza.
A representative of the Israeli army says that Israel believed that securing a certain economic level in Gaza would bring stability.
– We were wrong, he says.
Even many Hamas leaders did not know about the attack plan
One of the most blatant examples of Israel’s passivity is the apparent Israeli settlement built by Hamas in Gaza, where the organization’s fighters practiced taking it over.
A source close to Hamas described how videos of the exercise were even released.
– Israel must have seen them [videot]but they were convinced that Hamas did not want a confrontation [Israelin kanssa]says the source.
A representative of Israel’s security apparatus admits that Israel was duped.
– They made us believe that they had money in mind, says an Israeli source, who adds that at the same time Hamas was practicing its attack.
A representative of Hamas says that the focus of the attack plan was also to block all information leaks so that Israeli intelligence would not get a hint of what was to come. According to him, a large part of even Hamas’s own leaders were not aware of the planned attack.
The Israeli source also wonders how music festivals were organized this weekend so close to the Gaza border. Hamas gunmen killed more than 260 people in the area.
An Israeli security source also says that the Israeli army did not have a full occupation south of Gaza at the time of the attacks. Some of the soldiers had been transferred to the West Bank because there had been violent clashes between settlers and Palestinians.
Source: Reuters