The intelligence that saved a senior Hamas official from assassination: "He left the apartment hours before the strike"
According to a report in the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, senior Hamas official Ali al-Amoudi survived an assassination attempt in Gaza after receiving an intelligence warning about three hours before the strike. Two operatives identified unusual movement of Israeli drones and alerted the organization's security officials, which allowed al-Amoudi to leave the apartment where he was staying.
Senior Hamas official Ali al-Amoudi, who effectively serves as the head of the organization's political bureau in Gaza, survived an assassination attempt earlier this month. According to a report in the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, al-Amoudi received an urgent intelligence report about three hours before the strike and left the apartment where he was staying. Two operatives in the aerial array of Hamas's military wing noticed intensive movement of two Israeli drones over the building and the anchorage area in western Gaza City. They observed them for hours and assessed that an assassination attempt against a senior official would be carried out in the area. They later approached senior officials in Hamas's mechanisms, and the person responsible for al-Amoudi's security updated him with the information. The senior official decided to leave the apartment immediately out of suspicion that he would be a target for a strike. The report contained no certain confirmation that a strike was planned against him personally. The sources claimed that the drones possess dangerous intelligence capabilities based on artificial intelligence for identifying targets.