by Guido Olimpio
The man who works for two masters, useful for misleading, defined in jargon as “caviar”: Hamas has made him one of its best weapons, managing to deceive the enemy and hide its intentions
In spies’ jargon I call it “caviar”. the double agent, the man who works for two masters, useful for misleading. Hamas has made it one of its best weapons, convincing Israeli collaborators to also act for the movement.
It is probable that on a tactical level, these ambiguous figures participated in a well-studied plan. Palestinian sources revealed to Reuters how the Ezzedine al Qassam Brigades managed to deceive the enemy by hiding their intentions. Even if something leaked. Egypt, which has “eyes” in Gaza, had warned Jerusalem of “something big” coming but would have been surprised by the Netanyahu government’s lack of attention. We will see if this really happened in an ongoing story where the ability of the faction, the misstep of Mossad, Shin Bet and Aman, Jerusalem’s military intelligence, have emerged.
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Hamas’s first move was to pass a reassuring message: we are not interested in a new conflict, we are dedicated to the management of Gaza, we are negotiating to increase the number of Palestinian workers working in the Jewish state. A note said and re-said, on several levels, in the Strip as well as outside. Yet, there were contacts in April with the Iranian Pasdaran in Lebanon but they were interpreted as preparatory for smaller actions, attacks that Israel learned to contain and tolerate. Instead, if the Wall Street Journal’s revelations are true, they constituted the last piece to unleash the October offensive, including the alleged order to act given last Monday.
The Jerusalem government, however, appeared more cautious at an official level regarding the direct involvement of the ayatollahs. There is time for specific accusations. The chain of attacks in the West Bank also weighed on the general assessment, violence – combined with the government’s ideological choice in favor of the settlers’ demands – which pushed to increase the units in the West Bank, weakening the southern sector.
The second card was more obvious. The Brigades conducted exercises, evidence documented by videos released online: here are the frogmen on the beaches, the militants on hang gliders, the fire maneuvers. Everything clearly visible. Their workers built a range that reproduced the houses of the kibbutzim that were then stormed, a theater in which to rehearse the mission. It’s impossible that the Shin Bet didn’t notice. The analysis office will have thought of routine, propaganda activities. And what did their sources on the ground say? They confirmed? Possible. A sincere assessment mixed, however, with misleading advice according to a tradition cultivated by Hamas when it was still “in infants”.
Immediately after the birth of the movement he created al Majd, the initial cell of his counter-espionage, and the current leader Yahya Sinwar was also part of it in the 1980s. The apparatus was replaced in 2007 by Internal Security and has become a key component. He hunted down traitors, studied his adversary, and equipped himself with technological means with Iranian help. In several cases, when she found out, a mole, instead of brutally punishing her, convinced her to collaborate to “intoxicate” the Shin Bet. a subtle game, because you have to protect the turnaround.
The double agent used to pass correct data and misinformation, it is possible to sacrifice something or someone so as not to arouse suspicion in the Israelis. In one episode, Internal Security used the informant’s cell phone to listen to the dialogues with the Israeli 007s, in another it used the pawn to get details on “safe houses”, modus operandi, Shin Bet connections. But there was an episode where the spy killed her intelligence contact, a gesture to fully atone for her guilt.
An endless dance of duelists. With losses, twists, infiltrations. In September, the arrest of an operative of the Brigades in Lebanon but previously active in Turkey was announced. A member of the technical department, he spied on comrades in Gaza and abroad, providing the Mossad with details later used to eliminate explosives expert Hamza Shahin in the Gaza Strip in 2021. Economic difficulties pushed him to betray one of the Israelis’ favorite hooks for recruiting accomplices.
October 9, 2023 (modified October 9, 2023 | 5:57 pm)
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