The Shin Bet security agency is investigating the apparent failure of this month’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Ynet news reports.
The attack carried out by Israeli Air Force fighter jets on a building in Doha on September 9 is not believed to have killed any of Hamas’s top leadership, who were the intended targets. The attack killed several lower-ranking members of the group, including bodyguards and a Qatari security officer
Unusually, the intelligence on the targets was provided by the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, and not the Mossad, which is normally responsible for overseas operations. Ynet reports that the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate played a minor role in the strike.
According to the outlet, the Shin Bet is investigating the reliability of the information regarding the location of the Hamas officials, and its recommendation to use precision munitions that only hit part of the building. There have been unverified reports that the Hamas leaders were in another part of the building that was not badly hit in the strike.
There is no comment from the Shin Bet on the report.
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