According to the NBC report, part of the IDF’s successes in the Gaza Strip was due to US intelligence assistance “based on electronic eavesdropping” • Senior American: “The information received by the IDF includes a lot of detail about the leadership of Hamas. There is more understanding and intelligence about Hamas than ever before”
N12 | Published 21/03/24 15:41
Marwan Issa
Israeli and American officials said that Israel recently obtained a lot of intelligence in Gaza about Hamas and its leaders, as reported today (Thursday) on the American NBC network. According to the report, the intelligence was obtained from found mobile phones, computers, maps – and also through American intelligence assistance “based on eavesdropping”.
Marwan Issa
According to the report, the information received by the IDF includes a great deal of detail about the leadership of Hamas, the command and control and the communication of the terrorist organization, according to an intelligence source who spoke with NBC. of the USA. “The Israelis have the human resources files of the organization, their understanding of what Hamas is capable of doing is much more detailed.”
The report quotes sources who are aware of what is happening in Gaza and they claim that “the intelligence successes apparently allowed Israel to locate the number 3 of Hamas Marwan Issa, and kill him in the airstrike last week.” A senior official in the Biden administration said: “A lot of pressure was put on the leadership and capabilities of Hamas, and materials were used for intelligence and additional information.”
Munitions found by the Nut Unit | Photo: IDF spokesman
It was also reported that the information captured in the raids on Hamas command centers helped Israel in the matter of UNRA, whose staff members participated in the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7. It was also claimed that since October 7, American spy agencies have transferred resources and increased intelligence gathering in Gaza To assist Israel in its fight against Hamas, among the resources – signals intelligence gathered from electronic wiretapping of communications.
Yesterday, the US confirmed that Marwan Issa was killed in an IDF attack. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced that Hamas’s number three had been eliminated, and on the background of the activity in Shifa, he said: “Israel was looking for military targets there. Hamas returned to the hospital and fired from there at the IDF. The National Security Adviser also referred to the expansion of the operation in Rafah, saying that Biden and Netanyahu agreed on an Israeli delegation going to the White House to discuss it.
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