Now middle-aged, Rafael holds a roster of success in saving Jewish lives.
For example, Rafael managed to hack into communications between terrorists snipers aiming at Israeli soldiers. He alerted the officials, who alerted the battalion, and saved the life of the soldier in targeted by the terrorist sniper.
The official IDF spy network discovered the communications 12-13 minutes after Rafael — too late to have saved the soldier in target.
In a Hidabroot interview with Oded Harush, Rafael made disturbing revelations.
"The IDF stopped listening a year ago to those communication networks..." he explained. "And because it stopped, so it had no actual coverage of it. I had full coverage of it."
Why was this indie hacker the only one monitoring communications for the country's entire security apparatus (at least, as far as Gaza goes)?
Rafael continues his emotion-laden revelations:
Half a year later, a letter from a high-ranking official in the IDF hierarchy sent a message — sent a letter to the Ministry of Communications.
And in it, he requests from them to cancel my authorization.
I said to them, "Just LISTEN to me! Come over to MEET with me! Come gain some understanding of who's being talked about, come and see what's being spoken about."
I told them, "I save lives! Else I wouldn't be doing this. I sit here — and I save lives."
Then, referring to the day of the Horror Invasion from Gaza, Rafael starts crying as he says:
I lost 37 friends! I'm completely broken...
I have no anger. I simply begged them to listen to me — and no one paid any attention.
I just pleaded with them and went to everyone — I went before the highest-ranking officials in the system and they told me, "Listen, Rafael — you're being blocked from higher up. I don't even have any idea who's blocking you. We don't know WHY. We have no idea why."
And they tried to help me.
And people spoke to me despite him [the high-ranking official who sent the letter canceling his authorization] having told them they were forbidden from speaking to me.
They put out word that no one is allowed to speak to me. They circulated a message that everyone must withdraw from any network and any contact with me.
Later, they relented and gave them permission [to maintain contact with Rafael], but so many people went no-contact that part of them didn't come back due to their fear of the same authority — who is apparently the most powerful person in the IDF.
Rafael's answer:
The event would not have happened.
They didn't know — none of them knew — that it's something real.
And of course, it wouldn't happen — at least to me, that's what they say to me.
That's what they said to me when I told them — listen, one month ago, I raised the alarm. It's written:
"Hamas is practicing a parallel invasion of several communities at the same time."
And that alert arrived at the networks — not even from the eavesdropping network because I still didn't have eavesdropping capabilities.
And I raised the alarm and high-ranking officials spoke with me, saying, "Rafael, let them keep on practicing, let them keep on fantasizing. It's pleasant for them to fantasize, so let them dream on."
Then Rafael mentions the team of people with him he works to spy out terrorism, and concludes with:
And after it happened, after you understand the immensity of it, you've got to understand how much I, as an insignificant citizen, I could've prevented this massive situation.
I have nothing against the illustrious IDF...our goal is to save lives.
I hope they won't again stop us from doing what we know how to do — and that's to save lives.
Breaking Down the Revealed Details
This:
"Prior to the seventh of October, they took away from you several networks, which they decided to give back to you after the seventh of October. If those networks — about which I understand nothing — but if you had them on the seventh of October, would that event have looked different — even in some small way?"
Yet Rafael remains adamant that NONE of them knew the terrorists meant to do a lot more than just "dream."
Rafael himself took it seriously, running from official to official, begging them to take his information to heart.
And what about that high-ranking official — the most powerful authority in the IDF — who revoked Rafael's privileges right before the Massacre?
And took away his network right before the Massacre?
Here's the sum-up:
- The IDF stopped listening in on Hamas communications a year ago.
- "They" removed his whole spy network right before October 7th. (Then gave it back to him right after.)
- The "most powerful person" in the IDF cancelled Rafael's authorization 6 months prior.
- The "most powerful person" in the IDF cancelled Rafael himself, forbidding anyone contact with Rafael, or to allow him to access their systems (which he'd been doing before with no problem).
- No reason was given for revoking Rafael's authorization or even cancelling Rafael himself.
- Even high-ranking officials within the system had no idea why Rafael was targeted in this way.
- Only 1 month prior, Rafael warned officials of exactly what the terrorists were planning, going so far as to put the alert in writing (so there must be proof somewhere). Everyone dismissed its importance.
We hear a lot of conspiracy theories and indications, many suspicious questions arise.
But this testimony comes off as the most damning yet.
It's so clear that any protection we enjoy only comes from Hashem.
www.hidabroot.org/video/220878
(The part quoted above starts around 4 minutes into the interview.)
For personal suspicions, please see:
military-inconsistencies-surround-the-gazan-led-horror.html