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How Israel Fatally Underestimated Hamas
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Countless warning signs pointed to a Hamas invasion before October 7—so why was none of it heeded? Israeli journalist Yaakov Katz explains what was missed, what was ignored, and what must change.

For years, no one believed Hamas was interested in—or even capable of—crossing the border into Israel.

Yaakov Katz has just cowritten the definitive account of what went wrong on October 7: the false assumptions, the ignored intelligence, the absence of human sources, and the political and military failures that led to the largest targeted massacre of Je…

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