Occupied Quds - Saba:
Israeli media reported the arrest of an undercover Israeli intelligence agent in the Gaza Strip. He was found to be a double agent and misled the Shin Bet security service on the eve of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on October 7, 2023.
Israel's Channel 12 reported that the agent was arrested during the military operation in Gaza and transferred to the occupied territories, where he confessed during interrogation to being a double agent.
According to the channel, the agent deliberately provided false statements to the Shin Bet security service on the night of October 6-7, stating in a phone call that there was no preparation for an attack by Hamas.
Security sources confirmed this information to Yedioth Ahronoth, without indicating that the agent admitted to working for Hamas.
It is worth noting that the information provided by the agent was considered evidence that the attack was unlikely, which became part of a broader Israeli intelligence failure.
According to Channel 12, communications with agents in the field were limited on the eve of the attack, a fact that Israeli intelligence now considers a major "blind spot" in its work and crucial to internal investigations into the causes of the intelligence failure on the eve of the October 7 attack.
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