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After Israel's Oct. 7 Intelligence Disaster, Now No Stone Goes Unturned
(The Times-UK) Anshel Pfeffer - At the entrance to the military staging areas around the borders of Gaza, a yellow sign greets Israeli soldiers just returned from the battlefield: "Collection Point" for intelligence-gathering. It is one end of a pipeline leading to a massive information collating operation. Items dropped off include mobile phones, documents and computers suspected of belonging to Hamas members. A reserve officer who was called up when the war began said: "It's a mountain of documents, literally millions of them through which we have to sift. So much of it is of value but we need to work out which documents are of the highest priority." The two highest priority categories are clues to the location of Hamas commanders and information about the whereabouts and condition of the Israeli hostages snatched into Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7. The physical documents taken from Gaza have furnished intelligence analysts with a wealth of information on Hamas's military infrastructure and the planning of the Oct. 7 attack. In an attempt to obtain more up-to-date information, IDF Military Intelligence has called up hundreds of former case officers to carry out interrogations of captured suspects.