“The Israeli army learned of Hamas’ plans to attack and take hostages two weeks before October 7.”

This is not the first time that information has been broadcast that Israeli intelligence services have been alerted to the existence of a plan by Hamas to attack and take hostages.

But this time, the Kan public broadcaster reported that Israeli military intelligence was aware more than two weeks before the October 7 attacks of a plan by Hamas to attack Israeli military sites and kibbutzim in southern Israel with the aim of arresting hundreds of hostages. .

IDF surveillance and intelligence gathering unit, Unit 8200, assembled September 19 A report detailing the training of elite Hamas units in preparation for attacks who are they.

Intelligence officials within Israel’s Southern Military Command, which includes the Gaza Strip, They were aware of the report but ignored itAccording to what the Kan channel reported, citing security officials whose names were not mentioned.

According to Kan’s information, a document distributed on September 19 to the 143rd Chahal Division, also known as the Gaza Division, reported a plan to attack military bases, kibbutzim and armed forces. Up to 250 hostages capturedAmong them are women and children.

The worst-case scenario considered at the time was the possibility of a few dozen Hamas members from three points entering Israeli territory.

But on October 7th. Attacks carried out by Hamas commandos and other “affiliated” Palestinian armed groups in Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, most of them Israeli citizens, and the kidnapping of 251 people.. Of the 116 hostages remaining in Gaza, 41 of them died, according to the Israeli army.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly refuses to conduct an official investigation into the October 7 attacks before the end of the war in Gaza.

An Israeli army spokesman told AFP, in response to a question about Kahn’s revelations, that the army “is conducting an investigation into the events of October 7 and those that preceded them.” The representative said that the purpose of this investigation is to learn and draw lessons that have been imposed, adding that “The research results will be presented in full transparency to the public».