Drones destroyed remote-controlled machine guns that Israel had installed on its border fortifications. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel on Oct 9.Realising something unusual was happening, they sent an alert to the Israeli soldiers guarding the Gazan border, according to two senior Israeli security officials.
That made it easier for Hamas assailants to approach and blow up parts of the border fence and bulldoze it in several places with surprising ease, allowing thousands of Palestinians to walk through the gaps. The four officials said the success of the attack, based on their early assessment, was rooted in a slew of security failures by Israel’s intelligence community and military, including:
and a willingness to accept at face value assertions by Gazan military leaders, made on private channels that the Palestinians knew were being monitored by Israel, that they were not preparing for battle.“We spend billions and billions on gathering intelligence on Hamas,” said Mr Yoel Guzansky, a former senior official at Israel’s National Security Council. “Then, in a second,” he added, “everything collapsed like dominoes.
Israeli commanders had grown overly confident in the system’s impregnability. They thought the combination of remote surveillance and arms, barriers above ground and a subterranean wall to block Hamas from digging tunnels into Israel made mass infiltration unlikely, reducing the need for significant numbers of soldiers to be physically stationed along the border itself.
That allowed more than 1,500 Gazan fighters to surge through nearly 30 points along the border, some of them in hang gliders that flew over the top of the barricades, and reach at least four Israeli military bases without being intercepted.
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