According to a report by Mashregh, an analysis from the newspaper ‘Israel Hayom’ revealed that fighters from Hamas and other groups involved in the operation coordinated their battle management through emoji exchanges on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n
On the night of October 7, Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, exchanged emojis, particularly ‘heart’ and ‘star’, which cryptically indicated that the time for their operation targeting 11 military bases and 22 settlements had arrived, prompting them to move toward specific gathering points.Israel Hayom reported that military intelligence only discovered this information after reviewing thousands of intercepted phone calls. In the weeks following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, it became apparent that Hamas fighters, including elite members, had exchanged numerous messages during the operation, incorporating various emojis like hearts, stars, and flowers.<\/p>\n
The newspaper noted that the codes sent in seemingly ordinary text messages were embedded in a way that raised no suspicions, leading Israeli censorship officials to overlook and fail to investigate them.After decrypting what was described as a ‘massive amount of information’, military intelligence concluded that these emojis were designed to convey messages to elite elements, signaling that an attack on Israel’s ‘Gaza Brigade’ would commence that very night. The report added, ‘The heart emoji may have prompted the recipient to head to a specific mosque, among other things.’<\/p>\n
A former senior military intelligence official acknowledged in an interview with Israel Hayom that monitoring the increased use of such codes in real-time is virtually impossible. He stated, ‘It depends on the intelligence picture that night, but fundamentally, WhatsApp is not like SMS, as it is an encrypted application. Obtaining that information instantly is challenging.’The newspaper further revealed that among the information disclosed later, military intelligence referred to it as ‘content-free information’. This term refers to the volume of communications occurring within an organization or group in a specific geographical area without examining the content of the information itself.<\/p>\n
The source noted, ‘You don\u2019t actually see the content, meaning what Hamas members are discussing among themselves, but you do see the volume of their communications.’ This source added, ‘This is a key indicator. If you analyze it, you will realize that something suspicious occurred on October 7 compared to a normal night. This was another suspicious signal that both the Shin Bet and the Southern Command were waiting to hear from military intelligence throughout the night.’The failures of the Israeli regime during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation have led to mutual accusations of negligence between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and security services. Ten days prior, during a confidential meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Netanyahu insisted that he accepts no personal responsibility for preventing the October 7, 2023 attack. He emphasized that what occurred was an intelligence failure but claimed there was no treachery involved.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu, who is under investigation by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, stated that a critical warning document issued by Shin Bet in the early hours of October 7 did not reach his office until over four hours later.According to Channel 12 Israel Netanyahu told the committee that ‘Ronen Bar the former head of Shin Bet had stated in his reports before October 7 that calm had returned to the Gaza border and that Hamas had no interest in escalating tensions.’ Meanwhile five former Shin Bet heads and 31 retired department directors recently sent an unprecedented letter to Netanyahu accusing him of harming the security institution and attempting to evade responsibility for the failures of October 7.<\/p>\n
The letter stated that these attacks were accompanied by a widespread campaign to disseminate conspiracy theories and promote narratives aimed at holding security agencies accountable for these events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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