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The defeat for the intelligence of Israel it will remain in its history and that of the country, which have always been strongly intertwined. The terrorist attack of Hamas On October 7 last year, two years of meticulous preparation, it completely escaped the radar of what was considered one of the most efficient intelligence agencies in the world. Time for internal investigations and heads to roll, but for now in the meantime Shin Bet It’s always hunting season.
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And as is often the case, you fall back on a glorious past to make your image shine again. The special unit, which was set up specifically to hunt down those responsible for the atrocities of two weeks ago, already refers in its name to a legendary page in the history of the Jewish state. “Nile“is the chosen one, it is the acronym of a sentence by Samuel in the book of Genesis, who recites the biblical promise: “The Lord of Israel will never forsake you.” A promise that somehow makes the newly formed group a target.
THE TEAM
The team will be decoupled from other military units and rely on local soldiers, such as naval special forces and the elite Sayeret Maktal unit. They are supported by intelligence work, which also includes digital experts working on high-tech and facial recognition programs. Nili has been at “work” for days. Last Saturday, Ali Qadhi, believed to be in charge of a commando unit responsible for the massacre in one of the border kibbutzim attacked, was hit. After him was Billal Al Kedra, who led the attack on the agricultural community of Nirim. And then to Muhamed Katmash, the deputy commander and head of the firing range for thousands of rockets that rained down on Israel. And once again, Abu Murad, another prominent name among Gaza’s Islamic terrorism elite, must be added to the list. Some of the operations already carried out include the assassination of Jamala al Rantisi, the influential widow of the comrade-in-arms. Founder of Hamas, to Nili. The reference to the past is not just a nominalistic fact, the new intelligence unit stands in a tradition that was surrounded by prestige and mystery until October 7th.
PREVIOUS
The first spy network called Nili was already operating at the time of the first war associated with Great Britain against the Ottomans. They communicated with them in the most unthinkable ways, including the use of carrier pigeons: a system they had to abandon when one of the encrypted messages was intercepted and decrypted by the Ottomans in the winter of 1917. Then, many years later, another special unit was formed to hunt down the terrorists who bloodied the 1972 Munich Olympics by killing eleven athletes from the Israeli team. The operation was codenamed “Wrath of God” and was approved by then Prime Minister Golda Meir, who gave the green light to hunt down every single man in the command. And so began a series of mysterious deaths in Beirut, Rome, Cyprus and Paris. The first three were killed in the Lebanese capital by a group of agents disguised as women like their commander Ehud Barak, Israel’s most decorated soldier and later prime minister. Then there was a failed operation in Norway in which there was a mistake about the identity of the target, a poor and innocent Moroccan waiter. The three Israeli agents were arrested and spent almost two years in prison. However, the hunt continued and in Beirut the head of the “Black September” operations, Hassan Salameh, known as the “Red Prince”, was killed and in Paris another man from the commando was blown up after they grabbed his Vehicle with explosives. phone and then detonated it remotely. In recent years there has been no lack of other special operations, particularly in Iran, and those covered by “Mishtaravim” agents, who are active due to their perfect knowledge of the Arabic language and their ability to integrate into the population of the West Bank , so called.
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