How Hamas’ Oct 7 bloodbath plot escaped Israeli spies & sparked year of bloodshed – as war rages on what happens next?

HAMAS' fearfulness October 7 massacre crippled escaped Israeli spies successful a catastrophic information nonaccomplishment that sparked a twelvemonth of unprecedented chaos, experts say.

It was the catalyst that plunged 4 nations - Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Iran - into war, sidesplitting tens of thousands and marking a historical displacement successful the Middle East.

Experts person branded the spiralling concern successful the Middle East arsenic "one of the biggest quality rights crises successful the satellite close now" - triggered by the October 7 atrocity.

Bruce Riedel, who spent 30 years successful the CIA including a stint successful Israel astatine the Tel Aviv embassy, said Israel is present "fighting a warfare connected aggregate fronts".

"We've ne'er seen thing similar this successful Israeli history," helium said.

Since October 7, Israel's archenemy Iran has utilized its panic proxies to bash its soiled work.

Hezbollah has fired rockets from Lebanon successful solidarity with Hamas, portion the Houthis successful Yemen person terrorised the Red Sea by attacking immoderate ships they deem to beryllium connected with Israel.

Israel is besides inactive razing overmuch of Gaza arsenic its troops look to hitch retired Hamas and rescue hostages inactive being held by Hamas thugs a twelvemonth on.

Another beforehand has besides opened successful Lebanon aft Israeli troops and tanks past week poured implicit the borderline connected a ngo to hitch retired Hezbollah's warfare machine.

And past week, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tehran "will pay" aft making the "big mistake" of unleashing 181 missiles at Israel on Tuesday night.

He met with his warfare furniture successful a concealed underground bunker to representation retired the blueprints of a devastating revenge onslaught connected Iran.

Netanyahu's effect to Iran's blitz could people lipid accumulation facilities oregon even its atomic bases successful a last stroke to the tyrannical regime.

But experts judge this each could person been avoided if the October 7 onslaught had been foiled earlier it could happen.

Professor Riedel, who besides served arsenic a White House advisor, said: "Israel suffered a bigger decision past October than it ever has before.

"The onslaught was connected Israeli homes and villages and towns and bases. Israeli civilians, implicit a thousand, were killed and hundreds were taken hostage. This was unprecedented.

"And successful the months since, thousands of radical who unrecorded adjacent Gaza and thousands of radical who unrecorded adjacent the Lebanese borderline person near their homes, which again is unprecedented."

Kristyan Benedict, Crisis Response Manager for Amnesty International UK, told The Sun: “Gaza is 1 of the astir nether surveillance areas successful the world.

"There are aggregate layers of information barriers betwixt Gaza and Israel. There's 24/7 monitoring. There are quality quality sources wrong Gaza. 

"So you'd person to accidental there's a catastrophic information nonaccomplishment that has happened.

"Senior Israeli information officials, existent serving officials, erstwhile officials and quality officials person already said that connected the record, and that determination needs to beryllium immoderate signifier of nationalist inquiry."

Noy Leyb, an IDF Special Forces reservist who has spent much than six months connected the frontline successful Gaza and connected Israel's bluish borderline with Lebanon, told The Sun: "I conscionable can't judge that we're inactive successful this situation.

"I can't judge that the hostages inactive haven't travel back.

"This is our world each azygous day. We're not lone facing the warfare present wrong of Israel, we're facing the warfare extracurricular of Israel."

CATASTROPHIC SECURITY FAILURE

On October 7, 2023, immoderate 1,175 civilians, soldiers and overseas nationals wrong Israel were savagely murdered successful a hideous early-morning assault.

Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza, firing thousands of rockets, flying implicit successful paragliders and bulldozing done successful trucks successful implicit 100 antithetic places crossed the border.

Just weeks agone an IDF study recovered that 6,000 fighters from Gaza managed to get into Israel that time - including 3,800 from the Hamas panic group’s elite Nukhba forces.

Horrifying reports that followed October 7 revealed children were killed, women were raped and astir 250 had been kidnapped and taken backmost to Gaza.

It was described by many, including US President Joe Biden, arsenic "the deadliest time for Jews since the Holocaust".

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared "we are astatine war" pursuing the ambush - and said the subject would "turn Gaza into a deserted island" and urged its residents to "leave now".

The horrors of October 7 sparked the 12-month struggle - inactive raging successful the Middle East arsenic the IDF attempts to obliterate Hamas.

Netanyahu has rejected calls - including from his ain authorities - for an probe into the information failings that led to October 7 - saying helium wants to triumph the warfare first.

Professor Riedel said: “There surely was from everything we know, a batch of informing indicators that the Israeli quality community, oregon astatine slightest parts of it, were precise concerned. 

“But the Israeli authorities itself doesn't look to person taken it precise seriously.

"That is simply a perennial occupation for quality agencies. In this case, it led to a disaster."

Speaking astir a nationalist enquiry into the information failings connected October 7, Kristyan said: "That should happen, fixed the standard of sidesplitting against Israelis, the hostage taking, the radical who person been injured, radical who person been displaced.

"The Israeli authorities owes it to their citizens to guarantee there's due transparency and accountability for what looks similar a monolithic information failure.

"There is simply a benignant of reappraisal going connected crossed each applicable security, military, governmental aspects of the Israeli government."

An probe by the New York Times revealed that documents, emails and interviews amusement Israel was alert of Hamas' program for October 7 implicit a twelvemonth earlier it happened.

Military and quality apical brass dismissed the plans arsenic aspirational, believing it was excessively hard for Hamas to transportation out.

The paper saw a 40-page papers which outlined a step-by-step program of the benignant of penetration that would aboriginal termination much than 1,000 people.

Israel's home quality portion Shin Bet reportedly discussed a imaginable menace to the Nova festival hours earlier Hamas deed connected October 7 - but festival officials were not warned, Haaretz reports.

Egypt - antecedently a mediator betwixt Hamas and Israel - said it repeatedly warned the Israeli authorities that the panic radical was readying "something big" earlier October 7.

Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul said: "We cognize that Egypt has warned the Israelis 3 days anterior that an lawsuit similar this could happen."

In the twelvemonth earlier the onslaught Hamas posted videos online of its terrorists gearing up to onslaught Israel, completing drills and adjacent utilizing paragliders, CNN reports.

A YEAR OF BLOODSHED

Speaking astir the past 12 months, Professor Riedel said: "We person a warfare that's been going connected for a year.

"The terms Israel is paying is very, precise high. The terms the portion is paying is very, precise high.

"The Gaza front, the Lebanon borderline front, taking attacks from groups successful Syria and Iraq, and adjacent now, attacks from Yemen connected shipping successful the Red Sea."

The Middle East adept pointed to however 40,000 Palestinians person been killed since the warfare exploded past year, according to figures by the Health Ministry successful Gaza and Amnesty International.

But Israel contests the figures due to the fact that of Hamas' authorization successful the Strip. No outer planetary assemblage has been allowed to spell successful and verify the numbers.

Professor Riedel believes the caller escalation successful Lebanon pursuing Israel's attacks connected the Hezbollah pagers means immoderate "chances of a ceasefire present person importantly gone down".

Israel detonated Hezbollah's pagers, walkie-talkies and different physics devices successful a brazen onslaught connected the panic radical successful Lebanon past month.

The pager onslaught killed 37 Hezbollah terrorists & injured 3,600 much successful a deadly blitz arsenic Israel destroys Iran's "ring of fire".

Hezbollah responded by launching rockets into bluish Israel, and the IDF launched a barrage of airstrikes supra the country.

Netanyahu, echoing his statements successful October, warned the radical of Lebanon to flee.

Kristyan said: “This is 1 of the biggest quality rights crises successful the satellite close now.

“We were astatine Amnesty already moving connected Israel-Palestine astatine an highly precocious level earlier October... and surely astatine a overmuch much aggravated level since past October.

“The escalation was horrific."

He revealed that officials successful the UK authorities person told Amnesty International that Israel's extremity of obliterating Hamas wholly is not possible.

"The stated nonsubjective is not achievable of destroying Hamas and the existent UK government, elder officials would accidental the aforesaid thing," helium said.

"They've said that to america successful meetings months ago, it's not achievable."

More than 100 radical kidnapped from Israel connected October 7 are inactive being held captive successful Gaza arsenic their families propulsion Netanyahu's authorities for a ceasefire and hostage dialog deal.

Kristyan said: "101 radical close now, Israelis and overseas nationals who are being held arsenic hostages.

"They should beryllium released. It's a warfare transgression to instrumentality them, to clasp them, to torture them.

"That's wherefore we get backmost to the implicit necessity and echoing what tens of thousands of Israelis are saying wrong Israel. There needs to beryllium a deal."

Noy, 33, has spent immoderate six months successful Gaza and successful bluish Israel connected the borderline with Lebanon - wherever Hezbollah is based - since October 7.

One of his friends successful the service was called up to spell to a borderline kibbutz that greeting and arsenic helium drove determination with his woman they were some changeable dormant by terrorists from point-blank range.

He said: "I person friends who were injured. I person friends who were killed, whether it happened connected the 7th, whether it happened fundamentally meters distant from america successful Gaza erstwhile we were fighting.

"In betwixt the rounds of Gaza, you know, you'd spell successful for two, 3 weeks, you'd get retired for a time oregon 2 and you'd spell successful for two, 3 weeks again.

"Those 24 to 48 hours were meant for breathing and relaxing. And a batch of times, alternatively of being with your family, you'd person to spell to a funeral.

"I conscionable can't judge that we're inactive successful this situation. I can't judge that the hostages inactive haven't travel back.

"This is our world each azygous day. We're not lone facing the warfare present wrong of Israel, we're facing the warfare extracurricular of Israel."

THE FUTURE OF GAZA

Throughout a twelvemonth of warfare successful Gaza, Israeli officials person failed to springiness a factual reply oregon program for post-war beingness successful the territory.

More than 2 cardinal Palestinians person been displaced and overmuch of the enclave has been destroyed, leaving down a perchance decades-long reparation process for erstwhile the warring yet ends.

Asked astir its aboriginal successful May, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said: "Since October, I person been raising this contented consistently successful the Cabinet, and person received nary response."

Some of the much hardline right-wing politicians successful the Israeli authorities person expressed a content that Israel should resettle successful the enclave aft protesting a determination successful 2005 to propulsion retired IDF troops and immoderate 8,000 Israeli settlers.

Netanyahu has lone said that Israel volition not let Hamas, nor the Palestinian Authority, to tally the Strip aft the war.

He has besides said Israel volition support "full information control" - but not specified how.

Speaking astir the aboriginal of war, Leyb said: "No 1 wants to instrumentality implicit Gaza too a fewer radical successful the authorities and a fewer brainsick radical present successful Israel.

"That is however a very, very, precise tiny percent of radical look astatine the Gaza Strip.

"I tin archer you, I'm successful an elite peculiar forces unit. We don't truly adjacent similar to gag astir wanting to instrumentality implicit Gaza. We don't privation to.

"We don't privation to annihilate the Palestinians. We privation to unrecorded our lives and person them unrecorded their lives. That's the astir important thing."

But helium claimed: "I don't judge that we tin enactment afloat spot successful the Palestinians to person their ain authorities broadside by broadside and not onslaught us.

"If we're capable to destruct each of the Hamas leaders, past if we're capable to travel successful and govern Gaza, similar our portion volition beryllium information and person immoderate benignant of 3rd enactment travel successful and rise radical not to hate, rise radical to unrecorded a beingness that's escaped from terror."