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

A senior White House official has stressed that the United States intelligence community did not know anything about Hamas’s plans to target Israel.

Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on Nov. 20, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A senior White House official has stressed that, to his knowledge, the U.S. intelligence community wasn’t aware of Hamas’s plans to target Israel ahead of the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attacks.

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