— 🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israel's 'Walla News' writes about Middle East Spectator channel and the leak of classified U.S. documents:

'Senior American officials today expressed great concern over the leak of two American intelligence documents that dealt with Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran which were published by a Telegram account identified with Iran.

Why this is important:

The US Department of Defense and the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents but did not deny their authenticity.

The timing of the leak occurred as Israel was completing its preparations for retaliatory action in Iran, in response to the missile attack of October 1 and was seen as an attempt to influence or disrupt it.
An Israeli senior official said that the security establishment is aware of the leak and takes it very seriously.

The leak occurred on Friday when the Middle East Spectator Telegram channel claimed to have received documents from a source in the American intelligence community about Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.

The Telegram channel in question mainly publishes pro-Iranian propaganda content, and the profile of the Twitter account operated by that Telegram channel explicitly states that its operators are located in Iran.

The documents included a report by the Visual Intelligence Agency of the US Department of Defense, which was distributed within the US intelligence community three days ago, and which details operations carried out in recent days at several bases of the Israeli Air Force, including the transfer of advanced weaponry which, according to the report, was intended for an attack on Iran.

The report also states that according to intelligence obtained through wiretapping, the Israeli Air Force conducted an exercise this week in which fighter jets and UAVs took part as a possible preparation for an attack on Iran.'

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