The Wall Street Journal said that US intelligence agencies “stopped spying on Hamas and Palestinian factions in the years following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and instead directed resources to go after the leaders of Al Qaeda, and later the Islamic State,” according to officials. Americans.

According to the newspaper, American officials said that Washington, which took into account that Hamas never directly threatened the United States and focused on other espionage priorities, ceded responsibility to Israel, confident that its bold security services would detect any threat, and that one of the senior officials in the fight against terrorism, He said it should have been a "good bet."

The newspaper says: “With more than 30 Americans killed and 10 others missing, growing fears of a regional war, and billions of dollars in American military equipment heading to the Middle East since the surprise attack launched by the resistance movement Hamas on Israel on October 7, some officials say that the United States... The United States miscalculated the threat facing the American citizen.”

The newspaper quotes Mark Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA operations officer, as saying: “With regard to the intelligence failures, most of which fall on Israel’s shoulders, I think we should share some of the blame as well for not missing this event, and it now appears that ceding the target to the Israelis was "It has consequences."

US intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, had a small number of analysts tracking events in the Gaza Strip before the attacks, but they relied on Israel to infiltrate Hamas with human sources and monitor the group with eavesdropping technology, current and former officials said.

Biden administration officials said Israeli and US intelligence did not warn of the lightning raid in which Hamas breached Israeli border defenses and killed more than 1,400 people while the attacks continued Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza, which the Hamas-run health ministry says killed 8,500. Palestinian.