Israeli Security Establishment Doubts Egyptian Spy Chief Visited Before Oct. 7
Translated & summarized from i24NEWS Arabic by baba
Israel's security establishment doubts Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel visited the country before the October 7th attacks, despite claims made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Former security officials and retroactive checks found no record of such a visit. An investigation revealed a flight on September 26, 2023, carried businessmen, not Kamel. The security establishment is questioning the veracity of the claims.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Israeli security officials doubt Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel visited before the October 7th attacks.
- A senior security source stated that if Kamel visited, the services would have known in real-time.
- Retroactive checks found no record of Kamel's alleged visit to Israel.
- An examination showed a September 26, 2023 flight carried businessmen, not the intelligence chief.
- Prime Minister Netanyahu has claimed Kamel visited Israel days before the attack.
Israel's security establishment has expressed skepticism regarding claims that Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel visited Israel shortly before the October 7th Hamas attacks. According to Yossi Yehoshua, the military affairs correspondent for Channel 12, former heads of the security services who served in the lead-up to the attack are unaware of any such visit. A senior security source stated that if such a visit had occurred, the security services would have known about it in real-time. This source added that retroactive checks have yielded no information about the event, casting significant doubt on whether Kamel was even in the country. The source challenged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reveal who Kamel met with if he was indeed in Israel. An examination by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation found that a flight from Egypt to Israel on September 26, 2023, carried businessmen, not the Egyptian intelligence chief, and the plane returned to Cairo empty. The article also references separate reports about Ronen Bar suing Netanyahu over October 7th warnings and an investigation into the events of October 7th.
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