But Israel's PM describes any claim it received a specific warning as 'totally fake news'.
Israel was warned by Egypt of potential violence three days before Hamas' deadly cross-border raid, a US congressional panel chairman has said.
"I don't want to get too much into classified, but a warning was given," the Texas Republican added. "I think the question was at what level."An Egyptian intelligence official told the Associated Press news agency this week that Cairo had repeatedly warned the Israelis "something big" was being planned from Gaza.
Sir Alex Younger, who served as chief of the UK's foreign intelligence agency between 2014 and 2020, said Hamas fighters were able to carry out their attack on 7 October due to "institutional complacency" in Israel.there may have been an assumption by Israel that Hamas was not interested in a new conflict, so any information that contradicted that was discounted.
According to the Financial Times, quoting two unnamed officials familiar with the matter, there was no hard intelligence of a specific attack. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas attacks has reached 1,200. More than 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza.
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