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Sunday, August 4, 2024
IDF intelligence officers were reportedly at IDF HQ on night of October 6, dealing with a Gaza threat unrelated to the Hamas invasion
IDF intelligence officers were at the army’s Kiriya headquarters on the night of October 6, 2023, hours before the Hamas invasion and massacre, because they had “concrete” intelligence regarding a specific threat from Gaza unrelated to the invasion, Channel 12 news reports.
It says that the officers spent the night at the Kiriya on high alert, and that the specific “significant” incident was dealt with successfully.
The report says it cannot go into further details.
The IDF’s Intelligence Directorate head at the time of the Hamas massacre, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, announced his resignation in April.
On October 17, 2023, Haliva had acknowledged failing to warn of the impending Hamas attack: “The Military Intelligence Directorate, under my command, failed to warn of the terror attack carried out by Hamas,” Haliva said. “We failed in our most important mission, and as the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, I bear full responsibility for the failure.”
The head of the Military Intelligence Research Department, Brig. Gen. Amit Saar, announced in March that he would resign once the military wraps up its internal probes into its blunders.
