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Why Israel's intelligence chiefs failed to listen to October 7 warnings – and the lessons to be learned

By Robert M. Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security, University of Hull

Shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, when an estimated 2,000 Hamas fighters breached the Israel-Gaza border in 29 different places, the Israeli security establishment allowed a narrative to form that it had very little or no intelligence about the invasion.

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