“‘We’re not quite sure how we missed it. We’re not quite sure how Israel missed it.’”

That’s U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul addressing the weekend Hamas attack on Israel and the failure of U.S. and Israeli intelligence to anticipate the attack.

“We know that Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen,” McCaul, a Republican from Texas, said. “We know that this has been planned, perhaps as long as a year ago.”

“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 added.

House members attended a closed-door briefing on the situation in Israel with Biden administration officials Wednesday.

The Egyptian government reportedly has not responded to McCaul’s claim, but Egyptian media with ties to the nation’s intelligence dismissed the possibility that such a warning was given to Israel, according to a report by AFP.

he office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said no warning had been given.

President Joe Biden has asked Congress to send more aid to Israel and called the attacks by Hamas “sheer evil.”

Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza and then staging an incursion into Israel that led to the murder and abduction of civilians — more than 2,100 people have been killed and thousands wounded on both sides.

Israel issued a war declaration on Sunday — a green light for “significant military steps” in retaliation against Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. 

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