According to Greek news site ProNews.gr: 

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has launched an attack on Israel killing, according to Reuters, more than 200 soldiers and civilians and wounding over 1300, so far, in history’s largest military operation inside a country against the country itself!

In fact, according to a revelation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, senior officials of the Israeli Forces (IDF) and the country’s security services, estimated in their discussions during the week that “Hamas is not interested in war and is not preparing for it”.

The talks that took place concerned the possibility of a war in the Gaza Strip due to the clashes on the fence in recent weeks.

The position of senior Israeli officials was that Hamas was “keeping the conflict to a certain level, but would not escalate and start a war that would harm the people of Gaza and what has been achieved so far in the framework of indirect settlement contacts with Israel”.

After today’s facts, the surprise of the intelligence services and the complete collapse of the operational defense on the borders of the Gaza Strip, a Haaretz analyst estimates that Israel is expected to respond with “great force” and the possibility of a ground maneuver should not be ruled out and of the occupation of the Strip.

A campaign breaking out into multiple fields is also a possible scenario. And of course, at the end of the war, there will be “a deep investigation into the intelligence and policy failure” that brought Hamas into Israeli territory.

BBC Live Analysis: Colossal Secret Service Failure – ‘Caught Sleeping’

A brief by the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner blames Israel’s intelligence services for an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants in recent hours, which has left at least six Israelis dead and another from the Palestinian side.

As the BBC reports, this is a colossal intelligence failure for Israel.

The editor states that “the country has one of the most extensive and sophisticated intelligence networks in the Middle East, both internally and externally. It has informants embedded within militant groups not only in the Palestinian territories but also in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.”

He goes on to note that “He has, in the past, managed to assassinate militant leaders either with precision drone strikes or even with trapped cell phones. And yet today, at the end of a Jewish holiday, it seems she fell asleep at the wheel.”

The BBC concludes by reporting that “Hamas was able to plan and launch this carefully coordinated attack against Israel in total secrecy. That Israel will retaliate with massive force is a given. But Israelis will now wonder why their nation’s spies failed to see it coming and warn the country accordingly.”

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