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Self-proclaimed hacktivist groups have been attempting to insert themselves into the narrative surrounding the latest war between Israel and Hamas, claiming to have

There's something deeply troubling about the discussion over Israel's failure to prevent the attacks. It assumes the terrorists have no agency in choosing not to engage in barbarity.

 

 

Mark Esper, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, called the Palestinian surprise attack on Israel an intelligence failure and suggested it will have a lasting ripple effect. “I was a surprise, it caught the Israelis completely off guard and you can’t say anything but it was an intelligence failure,” Esper said during a Saturday interview…

As Israel reeled from a deadly attack by Hamas militants who broke through barriers around Gaza and roamed at will, killing scores of civilians in Israeli towns, defence chiefs faced growing questions over how the disaster could have happened. A day after the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Israeli forces were caught off guard by Syrian and Egyptian tank columns, the military appeared once again to have been surprised by a sudden attack. "It looks quite simila...

Saturday's unexpected attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas could be one of the biggest failures of Israeli intelligence since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Source: Bloomberg Details: The attack included dozens of infiltration operations on land and sea, as well as rocket attacks.

As criticism begins to mount over whether Israeli intelligence was unprepared for the recent attacks by Palestinian militants, U.S. officials refused Sunday to label it as an intelligence failure. Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented, multipronged attack on Israel on Saturday, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war on the group. Numerous critics and…

Israeli officials told the BBC that a major investigation is being launched as to how Israeli intelligence failed to anticipate the Hamas attacks.

London, Oct 7 (IANS) Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be "remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages", a media report said.