US and Israeli officials said none of Israel’s intelligence services had specific warning of a Hamas assault. Read more at straitstimes.com.
American officials said Hamas had achieved a complete tactical surprise, reflected in a death toll of at least 700 Israelis.represented an equally stunning intelligence failure by Israel that involved undetected warnings, overwhelmed missile defences and a slow response by apparently unprepared military forces, former and current US officials said.
Why was Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system, now a dozen years old, apparently overwhelmed by the barrage of inexpensive but deadly missiles at the opening of the attack? But as Mr Netanyahu’s government retaliates, and deals with the reality that Hamas has taken scores of Israeli hostages, the question of what went wrong will go down in history alongside other such failures.Others likened the surprise to the Tet offensive of the Vietnam War or even the Sept 11, 2001, attacks.
But the system has dealt effectively with large barrages before, former officials said, suggesting that new weapons fired by Hamas for the first time last Saturday could be harder to intercept and may have also played a role. Hamas used a new missile system known as Rajum during the attack and employed small drones that dropped munitions on Israeli military positions, according to Janes, a defence and open-source intelligence firm.
“Because intelligence collection is a human endeavour, failure is inevitable,” she said. “Unfortunately it has happened at the most consequential time, when they are facing the most consequential threat in a half a century.”
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