They saw and documented the preparations for October 7th, but no one in the Israeli military hierarchy paid attention.
Although it is not a comfortable topic among those who defend Israel’s actions after October 7th, it is neither new nor a secret that Israeli authorities knew that Hamas was planning a mass attack at least a year before it took place. The American newspaper “The New York Times” wrote this news a month and a half after the massacre a year ago. The reports exist, the newspaper read them and wrote about them. No one denied the content of the articles.
At the time, the complexity of the plan described, the amount of military material that would be needed and the objectives of the alleged attack led to the discrediting of the warnings that reached, says the newspaper, the highest military spheres. It is not certain that he reached political leadership.
A specific group of members of the Israeli army were always aware of what was happening across the border in Gaza, but no one wanted to listen. This group has the informal name of scouts, all female, young people placed in guard positions near the borders with the occupied territories. They had been observing for months and reporting to their superiors all military exercises carried out by Hamas members.
