In the wake of blockbuster new reporting that Israel was aware Hamas was planning a major terror attack a year in advance, American officials are continuing to assess that information while Israel plans to conduct its own investigation after the fighting with Hamas, officials said Sunday. "All of these questions, we're going to have to get to the bottom of it after the war," Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. But he added, "They have no indications that we, the United States intelligence community, had any knowledge of that [Hamas planning] document beforehand or any visibility into it." Kirby also noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there were intelligence failures. US and Israeli officials react to blockbuster report that Israel knew Hamas was planning attack originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News December 03, 2023 15:34 UTC