Israeli Intelligence Failed To Predict: 'Hamas planned massive attack

Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Another reminder that Israeli intelligence failed
to understand what Hamas could do with the tunnels.

The big question: does Israeli intelligence now have in place the apparatus
to think through what Hamas can do with all the potential that they continue
to amass thanks to “quiet for quiet” and do the decision makers have their
analysis?

My fear: there are a lot of people in this process who have invested so
heavily in “quiet for quiet” and the above assessment has a great potential
to interfere with the continuation of this policy.
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‘Hamas planned massive attack on Sderot during Protective Edge’
IDF’s Southern Brigade commander Col. Dado Bar-Kalifa reveals deadly clash
between Israeli troops and terrorists near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel
prevented the intercepted cell from unleashing some 60 terrorists in
southern Israeli community.

Israel Hayom Staff 8 December 2015
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=30263

The Israel Defense Forces was able to thwart a major Hamas terrorist attack
in the southern town of Sderot last summer, Southern Brigade commander Col.
Dado Bar-Kalifa revealed Monday.

Speaking of Operation Protective Edge with bereaved families at a Hanukkah
candlelighting ceremony, Bar-Kalifa said the military had indication that a
clash between IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists emerging out of a tunnel dug
near Kibbutz Nir Am had effectively prevented a terrorist attack in Sderot.

Four soldiers, including Lt. Col. Dolev Kedar, 38, commander of the Gefen
Battalion of the IDF’s Bahad 1 officers’ training base, were killed in the
July 22, 2014 clash.

“While I cannot go into details, I can tell you that the Nir Am tunnel
attack was mistakenly named, before we learned of the enemy’s plans to reach
Sderot,” Bar-Kalifa said.

The terrorists killed in the clash “planned to lead 60 terrorists to the
heart of an Israeli community, where they planned to embark on a killing
spree and abduct soldiers and civilians,” he said.