According to a media report, the US secret services are said to have warned of the increased risk of an intensification of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians before the attacks by the Islamist Hamas terrorists. The briefing is said to have been based in part on information provided by Israel, as the US broadcaster CNN reports, citing unnamed sources. However, the reports from the secret services did not contain any tactical details or foresee the unprecedented scale of the attacks.
The reports warned, among other things, of rocket attacks and violence from the Islamist Hamas. The day before the attack, US secret services are said to have passed on information from Israel to the US government that pointed to unusual Hamas activities, as CNN further reports.
It was unclear whether these US assessments were shared with Israel. However, much of the information was based on information from Israel. “The problem is that none of this is new“CNN quotes a source as saying. “This is something that has been the norm between Hamas and Israel in the past.”
Source: Stern
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