The capability of Hamas to coordinate terrorist attacks on Israeli towns without detection has raised concerns about technological blind spots for US intelligence officials, a senior US intelligence official told CNN.
But there was no tactical-level intelligence that alerted US officials that an attack of this size would happen on this day.
US intelligence officials are focused on understanding the secure communications and training used for the attacks and whether that knowledge is being shared with other groups elsewhere.
Speaking publicly Saturday, Israeli officials acknowledged they were caught by surprise at Saturday’s air assault.
“I assume the intelligence question will be talked about down the road and we’ll learn what happened there,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
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CNN, American, Israeli Defense Forces, “, Homeland Security, FBI
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Israel, Gaza