American intelligence on the lookout. The Pentagon has raised the counterintelligence threat level regarding Israel to its highest level, several American media reported on Saturday. The Department of Defense’s military intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said that “Israel’s ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection operations was at a ‘critical level,'” NBC News reported, citing officials Americans.
The move follows concerns that Israel attempted to spy on senior US officials to obtain information about the Trump administration’s “internal deliberations and decision-making regarding conflicts in the Middle East,” the broadcaster said. American television.
De son côté, le New York Times reported Israeli attempts to wiretap senior officials, including President Donald Trump’s top negotiator, Steve Witkoff, and top Pentagon policy official Elbridge Colby.
Strained relationship between Trump and Netanyahu
Since the joint strikes between the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28 which launched the war, the relationship between the American president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems tense. Donald Trump had a heated exchange, full of insults, during a telephone conversation with the Israeli leader, in which he said that his interlocutor was “completely crazy”, according to the media Axios.
The two men spoke about Israel’s threats to bomb the Lebanese capital, Beirut, with Donald Trump fearing it could undermine US talks with Tehran. In an interview with New York PostDonald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had had a vehement exchange with Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming to be unhappy with Israeli policy in Lebanon.
