On the night of October 7, a young soldier in the Gaza Division's intelligence headquarters noticed worrying intelligence signals.
In his column in Yedioth Ahronoth, Nadav Eyal revealed that the soldier, identified as R., was convinced that Hamas was about to attack and remained at his post all night alongside another female soldier.
According to the report, R. tried to convince his commanders to prepare, but the relevant female officers were told to "go back to sleep." The division's intelligence officer, A., was also unimpressed by the warnings, as was the division commander, Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld, who did not come to the headquarters despite being at the base.
Eyal mentions that additional alerts in Unit 8200 were not addressed. A subsequent intelligence investigation revealed that if the accumulated warnings had been placed together on a single map, the conclusion might have been different.
It was also reported that the Gaza Division had a dedicated warning model, but it did not include the possibility of a large-scale raid by Hamas. If it had been activated even in its limited form, an alert would have been issued to the entire IDF.