Channel 12 news reports that the Shin Bet security agency sent out an urgent warning to several official bodies including the Israel Police and the National Security Council hours before Hamas launched its brutal massacre on October 7, 2023.
According to the report, the Shin Bet sent out the alert at 2:58 a.m., around three hours before terrorists breached the Gaza border fence to begin their rampage through southern Israel.
The Shin Bet alert noted suspicious SIM activity from several Hamas cells in Gaza, which it said could indicate an impending attack, Channel 12 reports.
No action was taken as a result of the alert, according to the report, and the Shin Bet declines to comment.
The government and top military leaders have contended that they had not been warned about an imminent invasion at the time, despite several reports that have surfaced in the past year of red flags raised about Hamas’s plans to launch a major offensive.
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