When called by his handlers hours before the invasion, the man said nothing was happening, so signs of the imminent attack were ignored
A Hamas double agent fooled Israel’s intelligence agency into downgrading the indications it had of an imminent major terrorist attack from Gaza just prior to the Hamas-led invasion on October 7, 2023, Channel 12 reported Tuesday.
When the Shabak (Shin Bet) internal security agency handlers called their source hours before the attack, he claimed that nothing was happening on his side of the border.
Since he was supposedly on a high enough level within the terror organization to know if an attack was coming, his reassurance lulled the agency into ignoring contradictory signs they had received and not even calling some other agents they had in Gaza for confirmation, the report said.