Israeli's Intelligence Failures in the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[Research purpose]There was a serious failure by Israeli intelligence during the Hamas raid on Israel in 2023.Examining the issue of intelligence failures can provide lessons and insights for intelligence warning efforts.[Research method]This research summari-zes the reasons for Israel'failed intelligence strategy and tactics in the Hamas raid by analyzing media reports,think tank articles,and aca-demic research achievement.[Research conclusion]It concludes that Israel failed to treat Hamas as a primary strategic threat in its intelli-gence strategy and misjudged Hamas'capabilities and intentions;in terms of intelligence tactics,Israel over-relied on technical intelligence and under-relied on human intelligence,and failed to transmit battlefield intelligence in a timely manner after the raid.Israel'intelligence failures show that we should balance human and technical intelligence capabilities,strengthen our ability to identify information in the con-text of hybrid warfare,and avoid politicizing intelligence.
Israeli-Palestinian conflictstrategic intelligencetechnical intelligencehuman intelligencebattlefield intelligenceintelli-gence failurespoliticization of intelligenceIsrael