The Palestinian warrior group, Hamas, launched a massive offensive on Israel on Saturday last week. The invasion has shocked many parties in the world because of Israel's strong intelligence and defense expertise. So, what is the way Hamas broke Israel's defense?
It was launched shortly after dawn, the Hamas attack on its neighbor took place suddenly and deadlyly. All series were also recorded in the video recorded by the group and uploaded online.
Videos uploaded to the Hamas social media web show militants moving quickly to attack Israeli vehicles that could limit them. This includes paralyzing a tank that was hit by ammunition dropped from a drone near the border fence.
By riding a motorcycle, car, and walking, carrying weapons, an initial wave of 400 Hamas members stormed across the border into Israel at 15 points where they had violated security barriers.
Within a few hours, Israel's state-of-the-art wall and fence system has also been successfully breached by the group.
When minutes passed, more and more waves of Hamas militants moved with bulldozers to widen the distance for larger vehicles including 4-wheeled vehicles, pickup trucks and motorbikes to pass. This cluster also started to hit 22 separate positions in Israel.
With this success, Hamas is predicted to have spent months, even years, collecting intelligence data on Israeli operations along the border. They have also identified vulnerabilities on the fence, including gates along the border as well as Israeli patrol patterns.
"Hamas impressed Israel that they are not ready for war," a security source told Reuters and reported by The Guardian, Tuesday (10/10/2023).
"Hamas has used unprecedented intelligence tactics to mislead Israel over the past few months, by giving the public impression that they are not willing to fight or confront with Israel while preparing for this massive operation."
Another Israel reserve officer said there was a system and conceptual failure over Hamas which was more than just intelligence gathering. For him, Israel is very dependent on technology.
"We assure ourselves that Hamas is afraid and afraid, and that we will always receive intelligence warnings in due course. We think we know how to analyze their desires and thoughts. Realizing them will be difficult," he explained.
The scale of the attack, which began with a streak of 2,500 rockets and involved an attempt to land ships and paragliding north of Gaza, drone use, and hacking during the walls, indicated that the attack was designed to outwit.
After the breach, a large group of Hamas fighters quickly moved to some military bases on the far side of the border. They also appear to be aware of their best position, layout, and approach route to avoid detection.
This measure of success was informed to the news of Channel 13 Israel in a leaked excerpt from the interrogation of a Hamas militant who participated in the attack.
"It was 5 hours before they opened fire on us," he said. "We are ready with 1,000 fighters, we broke through the fence in 15 places."
Among Israeli troops rushing to battle positions were special forces from the Shaldag Unit, whose commanders had been notified of the first attack on residents along the border and rushed to battle locations with any available transportation.
In one initial interview with an Israeli military unit commander, a special forces colonel identified as B described himself as being informed of the Hamas attack within half an hour, and arriving at the Beeri kibbutz, who was the position of the Palestinian group's attack.
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