![]() ![]() ![]() I’m just speechless,” said Clarke of the Soufan Center. “I’m truly astonished for something of this magnitude to go down and for the Israelis to have no clue that this is about to happen. NBC News could not immediately verify the report. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that senior Israeli military officers and officials had assessed, as recently as last week, that Hamas wanted to avoid a full-blown conflict with Israel. He urged them to absolve themselves of this “great shame.” Hamas spokesman Ibrahim Hamad said on Al Jazeera television that the attack is “absolutely a message” to Muslim countries seeking normalization with Israel. In the wake of the attack, Hamas and Hezbollah said the attack represented a warning to any Muslim country seeking to strike peace with Israel. They also said the 50-year anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war also may have been a factor. officials said early assessments are that the timing of the Hamas attack was related to signs that a deal normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel was close to being clinched. It’s of course a large intelligence failure.” This is just something I’ve never seen before. Usually, even one person from Gaza gets close to the border, they’re intercepted and neutralized long before they can do anything. I’ve never seen the border breached in this manner. ambassador to Israel in the Trump administration, said: “In the 40 or more years that I’ve been following Israel one way or another, I’ve never seen this happen. Clarke said it was an open question whether recent domestic political turmoil in Israel had played a role in the apparent intelligence failure.ĭavid Friedman, who was U.S. ![]()
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