{"id":1233,"date":"2023-10-09T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2023-10-09T23:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T23:20:13","slug":"egyptian-intelligence-official-we-warned-israel-about-something-big-and-netanyahu-ignored-repeated-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/egyptian-intelligence-official-we-warned-israel-about-something-big-and-netanyahu-ignored-repeated-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian intelligence official: We warned Israel about \u201csomething big\u201d and Netanyahu ignored repeated warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Egyptian intelligence official has said Israel repeatedly ignored warnings that \u201csomething big\u201d was being planned by the Palestinian resistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unnamed Egyptian said Israeli officials were too focused on the occupied West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza, which has been\u00a0besieged\u00a0for 17 years.\u201cWe have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,\u201d the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told\u00a0<i>the Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cairo often mediates between Israel and Palestinian factions to restore a sense of calm after periods of fighting. Apart from crossing into Israel, the besieged Gaza Strip only has access to the world through Egypt, however Cairo helps enforce Tel Aviv\u2019s stifling control over Gaza and stop Palestinians from entering and exiting\u00a0 the enclave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel\u2019s hardline far-right coalition is made up of a number of illegal settlers who live in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and have called for and are working towards the annexation of large swathes of the area. Since coming to power less than a year ago, attacks on Palestinians, their properties and their holy sites have increased with 2023 already the deadliest year in terms of Palestinian deaths at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers since the UN began maintaining figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian intelligence official has said Israel repeatedly ignored warnings that \u201csomething big\u201d was being planned by the Palestinian resistance. The unnamed Egyptian said Israeli officials were too focused on the occupied West Bank and played down the threat from Gaza, which has been\u00a0besieged\u00a0for 17 years.\u201cWe have warned them an explosion of the situation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}