ON Sept 27, barely a week before Hamas fighters launched the largest surprise attack on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli officials took t...
The failure of high-tech surveillance systems to deliver advanced warning of the latest Hamas attack represents a failure of intelligence likely to be studied and discussed for years. – REUTERSPICSept 27, barely a week before Hamas fighters launched the largest surprise attack on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israeli officials took the chair of the Nato’s military committee to the Gaza border to demonstrate their use of artificial intelligence and high-tech surveillance.
The US and allied intelligence agencies that congratulated themselves on their early warning of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine also appear to have been taken by surprise. According to a Nato statement, Dutch Admiral Robert Bauer was visiting Israel last month in part to learn from the expertise of Israel’s “seek out innovative military capabilities”.
However, they are only as good as their sources of material – and human activity in a congested urban environment, such as Gaza, is rarely simple to interpret. To what extent fighters were pre-warned by commanders of plans for the assault remains unclear, but given Israel’s reputation for recruiting human sources, Hamas leaders may have kept their plans extremely tight.
Israel may still fear the Hamas assault from Gaza is a precursor to that. Hezbollah said last Sunday it had fired rockets and artillery into three points in Israel “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people.
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