By- Srishti Verma
The 7,000-person Mossad is the second-largest espionage organization in the West, behind the CIA, with a $3 billion yearly budget.
Mossad has a number of sections, although little is known about them. In addition to having a network of informants and agents 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
Given Israel's and Mossad's stellar record of stopping outside assaults, it is all the more urgent that the Saturday Hamas attack was not anticipated.
It has been questioned how Hamas was able to amass thousands 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 was unable to deflect all incoming projectiles from Gaza.
The most recent Hamas infiltration attempt was successful despite the sophisticated security systems along the Gaza-Israel border, including cameras, ground-motion sensors, and routine army patrols
Videos of a bulldozer demolishing a section of the seemingly impenetrable "iron wall" that delineated the Israel-Gaza border have surfaced on social media.
Hamas fighters were able to breach the fence by severing the wire and traveling by boat and paraglider to reach the area from the sea
There are significant reasons to wonder how and why Israel's nearly faultless intelligence agency was unable to identify the attack given its size, complexity, and apparent coordination requirements as well as the months of planning and coordination that must have gone into it