US Intelligence Community Wasn’t Aware of Oct. 7 Hamas Attack Plans: White House

A senior White House official has stressed that, to his knowledge, the U.S. intelligence community was not aware of Hamas's plans to target Israel ahead of the Oct. 7 attacks.

In a Dec. 3 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby claimed the United States didn't have "any advance warning" or "any knowledge" of Hamas's attack plan, despite reports that imply otherwise.

Mr. Kirby's statements come amid a report from The New York Times that Israeli officials had found Hamas's plans for its surprise attack more than a year before it happened, citing documents, emails, and interviews as evidence. The U.S. and Israeli intelligence communities have shared intelligence in the past.

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