According to a detailed report, the American newspaper "Washington Post" revealed that the operation to rescue the detainees led to a hideous massacre, in which 300 citizens were killed, most of whom were children and women, and at least 600 Palestinian citizens were injured (most of whom were also children and women), on June 8. In Nuseirat camp, I relied on a huge amount of intelligence provided by the United States to Israel.

According to the report, since October 7, the United States has intensified the collection of intelligence information about everything that exists in Gaza, including pursuing fighters and members of the Hamas movement using different, but accurate, methods, and gave Israel an unusual amount of drone footage and satellite images. Industrial, communications interceptions, and data analysis using advanced software, some of which is supported by advanced computer programs, and artificial intelligence, according to what current and former American and Israeli intelligence officials told the newspaper.

“The result is an intelligence-sharing partnership of a rare magnitude, even for two countries that have historically worked together in areas of common interest, including combating terrorism and preventing Iran from manufacturing a nuclear weapon,” according to the newspaper.

It is noteworthy that in a press conference at the White House last month, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that Washington “provided an extensive array of assets, capabilities, and expertise.” In response to a Washington Post report dated May 11, Sullivan said that intelligence "is not restricted or conditioned by anything else. It is not limited. We are not withholding anything (from Israel); we are providing all the assets, all the tools, and all the capability."

Other officials, including lawmakers in Congress, are concerned that intelligence provided by the United States could make its way into data warehouses used by Israeli military forces to launch air strikes or other military operations, and that Washington has no effective means of monitoring how Israel Uses US information.

According to the newspaper, “The Biden administration has prevented Israel from using any intelligence information provided by the United States to target regular Hamas fighters in military operations. The intelligence information will be used only to locate the hostages, eight of whom hold American citizenship, in addition to the senior leadership of Hamas - including Yahya Sinwar, The architect of the October 7 attacks, and Muhammad Deif, the field commander of the Al-Qassam Forces, the military wing of Hamas, both men were classified by the State Department in 2015 as terrorists.

Three of the eight American detainees have been confirmed dead, and their bodies are still being held in Gaza, according to Israeli officials.

According to the Washington Post, the United States provided some of the intelligence that was used to locate and ultimately rescue four Israeli hostages last week in an operation that killed more than 270 Palestinians and wounded 600 others, most of them women and children, according to health officials in Gaza. Which makes it one of the bloodiest events in the war that Israel has been waging for more than eight months.

Current and former officials told the newspaper that before the October 7 attacks, the US intelligence community did not consider Hamas a priority target. This changed almost immediately after the October 7 attack, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100 people, including 311 soldiers, and the taking of more than 250 hostages, according to official Israeli statements.

Members of the US Army's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) began working alongside CIA officers at the agency's station in Israel, according to US officials. One US official said that members of the Defense Intelligence Agency have begun meeting with their counterparts in the country “on a daily basis.”

The State Department also sent a special hostage envoy who met publicly with the key Israeli official overseeing hostage rescue efforts. FBI agents are also working in Israel to investigate Hamas attacks on American citizens and assist in hostage recovery efforts.

In the first weeks of the war, the Israelis responsible for locating hostages in the Gaza Strip, considered one of the most densely populated places in the world, requested specific information from the United States to help fill in gaps in what they knew from their own sources, current and former American and Israeli officials told the newspaper. . This included specific information, as well as techniques and expertise to analyze large amounts of images and overlay different images to create more detailed images, including 3D images, of the terrain in Gaza.

A senior Israeli official, who refused to provide details, said that the Americans provided “capabilities that we did not have before October 7.” But a second senior Israeli official noted that the United States had provided highly detailed satellite images that Israel lacked.

Sullivan, the White House National Security Advisor, confirmed that American forces did not participate in the mission to rescue the four hostages. “There were no American forces, and there were no American forces on the ground participating in this operation,” he said. “We did not participate militarily in this operation,” Sullivan told CNN’s “State of the Union” program last Sunday. He noted that “we provided "General support to the Israel Defense Forces so that we can attempt to bring home all hostages, including the American hostages who are still being held."

Al-Quds learned from an informed source, who requested anonymity, that “there are dozens (several dozen), and perhaps nearly a general, of American Special Forces present in Israel, meters away from the Israeli border with Gaza; some of them are from the army, and some are from the CIA’s special forces.” “In addition to a significant number of specialized American contractors who spent many years in Iraq and Afghanistan - and even Syria, who have developed, with the help of artificial intelligence, previously unknown technical means of locating hostages.”

The source, who had worked in this field in a number of Arab and African countries, said, “It is certain that Israel would not have been able to carry out this operation without American intelligence and tools,” but, according to him, “I do not believe that regular American forces (from the army or the CIA) They participated in the battle, because the American rules of engagement reject civilian loss on the scale of what we saw last Saturday (among Palestinian civilians in the Nuseirat camp), but Israel does not have similar red lines.” He added, "This does not mean that elements of contractors (mercenaries) with American security companies (such as Blackwater), whether they are American citizens or from Australia and Britain, did not participate; I believe that they most likely participated."

According to official US sources, as well as intelligence, this support consisted of members of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an elite special operations force with deep experience in hostage rescue operations. American officials said that members of the group have been working in Israel, in partnership with American intelligence officers, since the start of the war.