Israel’s failure to organize for Hamas’s assault was a “colossal collapse” of knowledge gathering, an affiliate fellow at Chatham Home has stated.
Chatting with the PA information company, Professor Yossi Mekelberg stated Israel failed to know Hamas’s motivations and capabilities.
Not less than 700 folks have reportedly been killed in Israel, and greater than 400 have been killed in Gazasince Hamas launched its shock assault on Saturday.
“This can be a colossal collapse, not solely of knowledge gathering however the ideas of when Hamas would assault and with what motivations or capabilities,” Prof Mekelberg stated.
“How had been they in a position to practice regardless of the blockade? How did they practice paragliders?”
Prof Mekelberg stated questions need to be requested about how Hamas’s fighters had been in a position to enter Israel.
“Regardless of (Israel) investing billions and billions of {dollars} on blocking tunnels and constructing a classy fence, (Hamas) nonetheless managed in a matter of hours to enter into Israel,” he stated.
Israel’s intelligence “undoubtedly wasn’t ok”. he stated.
“But in addition the belief that this was not going to occur,” he added.
“That is what occurred to Israel in 1973, constructing on the idea that provided that sure situations had been fulfilled, that Egypt and Syria would (then) assault.
“I feel the identical occurred right here and so they didn’t establish the indicators.”
Prof Mekelberg stated the West has didn’t take the battle between Israel and Hamas significantly in recent times.
“Sadly, sadly, nobody was taking it significantly,” he stated.
“There was full apathy about it.
“That is the worth of that apathy, of not resolving the battle.”