On the night of October 7, in the Gaza Division's intelligence headquarters, a young soldier noticed worrying intelligence signals.
Nadav Eyal reveals in his column in Yedioth Ahronoth that the soldier, nicknamed R, was convinced that Hamas was about to carry out a raid, 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 officers were told to "go back to sleep.".
A., the division's intelligence officer, was also not impressed by the warnings, as was the division commander, Brigadier General Avi Rosenfeld, who did not arrive at the air base 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 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.
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