“We’re not quite sure how we missed it. We’re not quite sure how Israel missed it,” Rep. Michael McCaul said Wednesday.
The US has confirmed that Egypt warned Tel Aviv of a possible impending attack, according to the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — who says he is “not quite sure” how Israel and the US “missed it.”
“We know that Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Wednesday following a closed-door intelligence briefing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I don’t want to get too much into classified (details), but a warning was given. I think the question was at what level.”
McCaul seemingly confirmed the earlier claim by an anonymous intelligence official in Egypt, which often serves as a mediator between Israel and Hamas.
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big,” the official said, accusing Israel of having “underestimated such warnings.
