The indictment filed on Wednesday against Islamic Jihad operative Majd Ouida presents a very worrying picture. It shows how one person, equipped with extremely meager technological means, can collect with relative ease intelligence on all aspects of the IDF’s drone activity over the Gaza Strip, as well as extract extremely sensitive information from Israel’s transportation infrastructure, government ministries and from the Palestinian Authority.

Ouida may have a degree in electrical engineering and computers, but the incredible ease with which he used spying software freely available online should be cause for alarm.

This is cyber espionage, through which the Islamic Jihad could have sabotaged the IDF’s intelligence-gathering activities, as well as the military’s offensive operations in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the defendant gathered intelligence that could have allowed the Islamic Jihad to accurately aim the rockets at its disposal, leading to mass casualties on the Israeli side.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is the second largest terror organization in the Gaza Strip and serves as Iran’s main proxy in the Palestinian enclave. The organization had, and still has at its disposal long-range Fajr-5 rockets and other similar projectiles.

However—and this is the good news—the Islamic Jihad in Gaza doesn’t have the skill and operational knowledge to take advantage of the intelligence Ouida gathered in a way that could seriously affect IDF operations or endanger Israelis under the threat of its rockets. And still, the intelligence Ouida gathered probably helped protect some of Islamic Jihad’s militants and their arsenal of rockets from the IDF’s bombs.

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