The Mossad was against the attack against Hamas in Doha, the Washington Post reveals it. The Israeli external intelligence agency has refused to implement a plan developed in recent weeks to use the field agents to assassinate Hamas leaders, according to two Israelis aware of the issue that have spoken on condition of maintaining anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
The director of Mossad, David Barnea, opposed the killing of Hamas officials in Qatar – writes the post – in part because such an action could have broken the relationship that he and his agency had cultivated with the Qatari, who had hosted Hamas and mediated the interviews of ceased the fire between the militant group and Israel.
The reserves of the Mossad on a land operation have ultimately influenced the methods of execution of the attack and perhaps its chances of success. They reflected a wider opposition within the Israeli security apparatus to the attack ordered by Netanyahu. Instead of deploying Mossad agents, on Tuesday Israel opted for a secondary option: to use 15 combat jets that launched 10 missiles from afar. Hamas said that the air attack was unable to kill high officials, including its interim leader Khalil al-Hayya. Instead, Hamas said, the attack killed several relatives and collaborators of his delegation, as well as a Qatar officer.
Ballistic missile launched by Marro Rosso
Israel used a ballistic missile launched by planes in flight on the Red Sea to try to assassinate Hamas’ management in Doha last Tuesday. This was reported by the Wall Street Journal, specifying that the Raid was conceived in this way to prevent Israeli hunting from entering the Saudi air space and to be performed quickly so that the Trump administration had less time to oppose.
According to the newspaper, Israel did not warn the United States until a few minutes before the launch of the attack nor provided precise details on the goal. Washington was able to understand it using space sensors that detected the heat traces of the missiles. “The notice was given so close to the actual launch of the missiles that there was no way to reverse or interrupt the order,” said a high American defense official, describing the operation as “absolutely unimaginable”.