“Saqr” Squadron, one of the resistance units that participated in the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation (social networking sites)
The newspaper "Israel Today" said that the Hamas movement was able, before last October 7, to gain access to dozens of cameras, including a large number inside the kibbutzim (military agricultural settlements) on the border of the Gaza Strip, noting that the Israeli army now admits that it was Reporting on what was called the “camera issue,” but this issue was not addressed as quickly as necessary.
The newspaper added that Hamas' capabilities in the field of intelligence did not become clear to the Israelis until after the Israeli army entered Gaza and seized the data on the underground servers that Hamas had established, and the computers connected to them, and that what was revealed left Israeli intelligence officials speechless, according to the newspaper. "Israel Today".
The newspaper said that the Israeli army now realizes that there are Hamas attacks that were not detected in real time, and that despite Hamas’s relatively limited cyber capabilities, the intelligence it extracted from the phones it was able to hack served it well on October 7. In reference to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which was launched by the Palestinian resistance led by the Al-Qassam Brigades in response to the continuing Israeli attacks.
The other area in which Hamas’ real capabilities emerged after the start of the aggression on Gaza - according to the newspaper “Israel Today” - is cyber warfare, as the Israeli army has observed in recent years many Hamas attempts to hack soldiers’ mobile phones, but, as is the case with hacking cameras, it has not The occupation knows that what it was aware of was the tip of the iceberg, before it seized Hamas's servers.
The Israeli army now realizes that there are attacks carried out by Hamas that were not discovered in real time, and that the intelligence information it extracted from the phones that it was able to hack served it well in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in addition to that it succeeded in developing reconnaissance capabilities that included marches that flew over the Gaza Strip. And she photographed Israeli territory.
But the author of the report, Netanel Flamer, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, says, “The perception in Israel was that Hamas does not have serious intelligence services, and that at most it can raise binoculars and monitor from afar, and that the organization is neither Russia nor China.”
He added, "This was a very big mistake. Hamas had high-quality intelligence services, but the threat was not adequately absorbed into the Israeli security systems, and in fact, what was revealed was astonished by Israeli intelligence officials," according to the website.
Source: Al Jazeera + Israeli press