On October 6, sirens wailed through multiple cities, jolting hundreds of Israelis out of their sleep. In addition to a stunning land, sea, and air invasion against Israeli territory, the Palestinian organization Hamas had fired almost 5,000 rockets from Gaza.
Hamas deployed its fighters to sabotage towns, kibbutz settlements, and even a music event in the open air. Israelis fled inside their houses in fear as stories of terrorist assaults by Hamas members going door to door, killing civilians, or dragging them away abounded.
Boats and motorized paragliders that used guerrilla tactics to enter Israeli soil early in the morning added to the Hamas ground assault.
Despite the joint efforts of Shin Bet and Mossad, the two renowned Israeli security and intelligence organizations, the strikes have resulted in hundreds of deaths, making it the biggest attack on Israeli land since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The fatalities and the attacks have caused a serious damage, especially to the reputation of Mossad, whose accomplishments in Israel and across the world are legendary.
How Mossad Operates
The 7,000-person Mossad is the second-largest espionage organization in the West, behind the CIA, with a $3 billion yearly budget.
David “Dadi” Barnea, who took over as Mossad director from Yossi Cohen in June 2021, chosen through a very secretive process that only known to a small group of people working for the Israeli prime minister’s office, the organization, and the Civil Service Advisory Committee, which examines and approves even the prime minister’s appointment.
Mossad has a number of sections, although little known about how they organized inside. In addition to having a network of informants and operatives inside Palestinian terrorist organizations, it also has spies operating in adversarial nations like Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. The intelligence agency’s extensive espionage network gives them personal information of the activities of militant leaders, allowing them to carry out precise killings when necessary.
Departments:
- The main branch of the Mossad, the Collections Department, is in charge of international espionage activities.
- With friendly foreign intelligence services and countries with whom Israel does not have formal diplomatic connections, the Political Action and Liaison Department engages in political activity.
- The Special missions Division, often known as Metsada, conducts paramilitary, psychological warfare, and extremely sensitive assassination missions.
- Operations including psychological warfare, propaganda, and deception are under the purview of the LAP (Lohamah Psichologit) Department.
- The research division generates intelligence, such as daily situation updates, weekly wrap-ups, and comprehensive monthly reports.
- To assist Mossad operations, the Technology Department creates cutting-edge technology.
Mossad’s failure:
Given Israel’s and Mossad’s stellar record of stopping outside assaults, it is all the more urgent that the Saturday Hamas strike not anticipated.
It has questioned how Hamas able to amass hundreds of rockets and missiles so near to Israel’s borders without Israeli intelligence learning about it or why Israel’s steadfast Iron Dome missile defense system unable to deflect all incoming projectiles from Gaza.
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