by Natalie Musumeci at Business Insider
- An Egyptian intelligence official said the Israeli government was warned about “something big” before the Hamas attacks.
- “We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon,” the official told the AP.
- The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the claim “absolutely false.”
Before the Palestinian militant organization Hamas launched its unprecedented, large-scale attacks on Israel over the weekend, the Israeli government was repeatedly warned that “something big” was brewing from the group that controls the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian intelligence official told The Associated Press.
Yet Israeli officials downplayed the threat from Gaza and instead focused on the occupied West Bank, the anonymous Egyptian intelligence official claimed, the news outlet reported on Monday.
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the Egyptian official told the AP.
The Egyptian official said that Egypt, which has historically acted as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, told Israel repeatedly that “something big” was being planned…
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