If protocol had been followed, the entire Gaza border sector should have been put on high alert, according to Hebrew media reports.
The Israel Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 issued a warning a day before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel that, according to protocol, should have put the entire Gaza border sector on high alert, Hebrew media reported on Monday.
But the vaunted intelligence unit, stationed at the Home Front Command’s Southern District base, about 10 miles away from the Gaza border, sent the warning via email instead of making a call, according to Israel’s Channel 12 News.
The report did not specify the content of the warning, but noted it involved the activation of a component related to a “certain, highly significant type of weaponry in the northern Gaza Strip.”