Israeli officials tell BBC an investigation into Gaza's surprise attack will go on for years.

"We have no idea how this could have happened."

That is the reaction Israeli officials have been giving today when I ask them how, with all its vast resources, Israeli intelligence did not see this attack coming.

Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen were able to cross the heavily fortified border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, while thousands of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.

With the combined efforts of Shin Bet, Israeli domestic intelligence, Mossad, its external spy agency and all the assets of the Israel Defense Forces, it is frankly astounding that nobody saw this coming.

Or if they did, they failed to act on it.

  • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    Actually the FBI and the CIA had the dots but didn't share their information. Why? I don't really know I leave it up to speculation, maybe it was the Bush Administration but to me its because the CIA doesn't want the other US intelligence agencies to know about their business. Had they shared none of that happened but I bet it's because they're a fucked up organization. Then again the USA is a fucked up country.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      Why?

      I literally just said…

      Cheney set it up so intelligence agencies couldn’t communicate directly, they had to report to him, and he had to decide if something should be shared.