GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), The Al-Haris platform affiliated with the resistance’s security apparatus revealed new details in a security case involving an agent who exploited the humanitarian conditions of prisoners’ families in the Gaza Strip, within what security sources describe as a war of minds waged by the Israeli intelligence against those supporting resistance, using soft tools based on psychological deception and information gathering from the popular support base.
According to what was permitted for publication, the agent, who was given the alias Khitam, admitted that she lured prisoners’ wives under the pretext of delivering entrusted items or providing assistance, in order to collect information related to the nature of their husbands’ work within the resistance factions.
The platform explained that she was tasked directly by Israeli intelligence services to carry out this mission, relying on fabricated humanitarian narratives that intersect with the reality of displacement, the loss of homes, and the harsh living conditions experienced by families in the Strip.
The information indicates that the method relied on gradually building relationships of trust with the wives and employing emotional discourse that touches their daily suffering, which pushed them to provide personal or organizational details about their husbands without realizing the security dimension of the information being exchanged.
This pattern of intelligence work, according to experts, falls within a strategy of dismantling social ties and targeting the weakest link and turning human pain into an entry point for penetration.
Available information confirms that some of the testimonies collected in this way were later used to reopen investigation files against prisoners, causing them direct harm, whether at the level of security procedures inside prisons or within the context of their intelligence assessments.
This reflects a shift in confrontation from the military field to the psychological and social sphere, where the occupation seeks to compensate for its security failures by recruiting human sources within the civilian fabric.
This case comes amid the escalation of the open confrontation in Gaza, where operations are not limited to bombardment and raids, but extend to a battle of awareness and information that targets families, displaced people, and social groups harmed by the war.
Observers point out that the occupation has intensified attempts to exploit economic and humanitarian distress to recruit agents or extract information, benefiting from modern communication tools and the fragility of living conditions.
In return, security and community bodies in Gaza warn of the dangers of uncalculated interaction with unknown entities or individuals who claim to provide assistance or deliver entrusted items, and call for strengthening security awareness within families, especially prisoners’ families who face compounded psychological pressure.
They also stress that the war of minds is no less dangerous than military confrontation, because it targets internal trust and the accumulation of organizational experience, and works to turn human relationships into channels of penetration.
The case, as presented, reveals another face of the conflict, titled the use of suffering as an intelligence weapon, and the attempt to turn damaged homes into sources of information, in a battle whose details unfold away from the cameras, yet touch the core of social cohesion in a Strip living through one of the most complex phases in its history.
