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Gonen Ben Itzhak, a former Israeli spy and vocal critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Saturday that Israel is "arrogant" and that Ham

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A former Shin Bet intelligence agent, Ben Itzhak once handled the son of a Hamas co-founder as an informant, to prevent attacks in the occupied West Bank. Now he protests on the streets against

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Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel could have been prevented by a double agent like Yousef reporting the plan, and the country's security elite underestimated Hamas, the former spy believes.

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Mr Levy - who was head of economic warfare in the Mossad, Israel's spy agency, until 2016 - says he told Mr Netanyahu many times that Israel had the means to crush Hamas, which controls Gaza, "by

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Israel's prime minister missed the chance to starve Hamas of cash, years before its murderous attack last October, according to a former senior Israeli intelligence officer. Udi Levy has told BBC

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Additionally, Gallant called on Netanyahu to rule out the idea of Israeli military and civil rule in Gaza after the end of the war triggered by Hamas's October 7 onslaught, as some far-right

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Its own military doesn't seem to think so, clashing with Netanyahu. The Israel Defense Forces' top spokesman said "Hamas is an idea" that can't be eliminated and that saying it could be was

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The incident is part of a growing body of evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government missed — or ignored — key warnings about Hamas' plans to attack the country

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Israel called the strike a "tragic mishap" but says the strike also managed to kill two Hamas officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that a top goal of his

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That's the number of Hamas fighters who took part in the unprecedented attack on this country, Israel, one month ago. And that's what the IDF, Israel's military, tells NPR. Again, that number

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Israel's strategy for defeating Hamas — destroying its military and political capabilities to the point where the terrorist group can never again launch major attacks against Israeli civilians

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U.S., Israel at odds over meeting schedules 04:45. This week, the same concerns from Netanyahu's own military were thrust into the public domain. "Whoever thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong

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The Israeli military's 8200 signals intelligence unit had also recently stopped listening in on the handheld radios used by Hamas militants after they judged it a waste of effort, according to

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On a Tel Aviv overpass, former spy Gonen Ben Itzhak addresses a small gathering of flag-waving protesters worried about the future of Israel under longest-serving premier Benjamin Netanyahu.- 'The Green Prince' - Ben Itzhak -- who joined the security services in the 1990s after premier Yitzhak Rabin's assassination -- has become a leading figure in protests against Netanyahu.

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Israel's military spokesman has exposed a widening rift between the country's political and army leadership, questioning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stated goal of destroying Hamas

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For months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been insisting that the goal of Israel's bombardment in Gaza is to "destroy Hamas."But in the path of that destruction, more than 33,000

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Binyamin Netanyahu pledged to achieve two things when he launched a ground invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas's deadly October 7th attack on Israel: to destroy the militant group and free the

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Gonen Ben Itzhak, a former agent of Israel's internal security service Shin Bet and now a prominent figure in the opposition movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, has

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Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel could have been prevented by a double agent like Yousef reporting the plan, and the country's security elite underestimated Hamas, the former spy believes. "You need an old asset to call you and to tell you something is going wrong. And it seems like we didn't have it," he said. "We think that our enemy is stupid.

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In response to Hamas' October 7 attacks on Israel, when militants killed more than 1,200 people and took some 250 others hostage, Israel launched its war in Gaza with the primary goals of

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gonen ben itzhak, a former osraeli spy and vocal critic of israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said on saturday that israel is "arrogant" and... gonen ben itzhak, a former osraeli spy and vocal critic of israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said on saturday that israel is "arrogant" and that hamas was "smarter" than them. he also

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The latest war erupted when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's retaliatory offensive has so far killed nearly 38,000 people, according to the Gaza health ministry, and has left the heavily built-up coastal enclave in

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Updated June 20, 2024 12:12 pm ET. Text. A rift between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's military leadership is spilling increasingly into the open after the armed

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"We think our enemy is stupid, we are arrogant, we think that we are smarter, and in the end Hamas was smarter than Israel and Netanyahu is 'destroying