A former Israeli military intelligence officer said there is great concern that the Israeli army was exposed to deep counter-espionage operations from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) The officer - whom the newspaper described as a veteran without mentioning his name - explained that the elite forces of the Hamas movement were in possession of information about sensitive and secret sites. He stressed that this means a double intelligence failure for the Shin Bet (General Security), which should have collected information about Hamas' plans, but failed to do so.