A senior US official who participated in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' meeting regarding the situation in Gaza told Israel Hayom that the Egyptian warning given to Israel three days before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack "was at a very low-grade and basic level."
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According to the official, the committee chairman who briefed the media about the warning, Texas Congressman Michael McCaul, "misspoke and exaggerated." The official, who was at the meeting and had details of the information in the committee, stressed that "there was no concrete warning, and certainly nothing resembling an attack on the scale we saw."
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The senior official emphasized that the Hamas attack shows a very serious intelligence lapse, both for Israel and the United States. "We are examining this from our perspective. You will conduct your own investigations, but we see it as a major failure on our part. It is something our systems should have picked up, and we will examine why it did not happen," said the American official.
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At the same time, the official emphasized that the American people and its political leaders are "united in their willingness to assist Israel in whatever is required."
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