
A junior officer in Unit 8200, the IDF's signal intelligence unit, warned her superiors over the past year about the possibility of a mass infiltration event from the Gaza Strip of the kind that occurred on October 7, but her warnings were dismissed, Channel 12 News reported.
When presented with her warnings, the officer's commanders did nothing and told her: "You are imagining it."
An IDF spokesperson said: "The IDF is currently working and fighting the murderous terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip. All commanders and soldiers are focused solely on this mission, to fulfill the goals of the war."
"After the end of the war, a detailed and in-depth investigation will be conducted on the issue to uncover the full details of what happened," the spokesperson said.
Last week, Channel 12 News reported that for several months, surveillance post-operators warned about changes in the areas they were watching, saying that special attention was needed and clear warning signs were present.
According to the operators, they warned their commanders of training, unusual activity, and preparations near the border.
Among other things, they described how more and more people who had not been observed in the area were arriving there, how farmers who used to arrive daily to work their fields had been replaced by others, and how they were seeing new forms of activities in the area.
When they alerted one of the senior officials appointed over the area, they received the response: “I don't want to hear about this foolishness even one more time. If you annoy me again with these things, I will have you brought up on charges.”
The report also claimed that the surveillance operators, who served on the border and lost friends to murder or abduction in the invasion, are not receiving psychological care from the IDF, and have been presented with the demand to either return to their post within two weeks or forfeit their benefits and move to another position.