Facing one of the most sophisticated surveillance states on the planet, Hamas simply went dark.
The militant group’s attack on Saturday caught Israel’s national security apparatus completely off-guard — a shocking fact given the scope of the incursion, which included attacks by sea, air and land, and pushed deep into Israeli territory.
As dawn broke on Saturday, some thousand Hamas fighters burst through the technologically advanced fence designed to protect against threats from Gaza, fanning out across towns and villages. Children were shot in front of their parents. Hostages were dragged from their homes. Overhead, thousands of rockets rained down as other fighters entered the country on paragliders.
If taking its communications dark helped Hamas circumvent eavesdropping, then going underground — literally — may have helped thwart Israel’s surveillance satellites. Hamas “had very good intelligence that the Israeli border was lightly manned, that it could be overrun
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