• twisted28@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    More importantly, in one of the few countries with actual walls on their borders to keep out Palestinians, why were the guards missing that night and how did Hamas find out ?

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      1 year ago

      Nope it ain’t, and it’s mostly sensors and cams. Guards weren’t missing, it was religious holiday and most of the IDF came back home. A lot of paragliding recreations occur often and Hamas used this opportunity to their advantage. I know these things because I know few people who work in the IDF. I’m not jewish but I live in Israel for my job. The wall is mostly fence, and only in important places it’s a wall.

      I assume you know that more than half a million Palestinians cross that border every day… it’s not that strict. Although from now on it might be

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        1 year ago

        I googled the wall earlier, in some places it’s an actual wall, yet its chain length with rows of bar wire in others. Doesn’t change the fact it’s one of the most patrolled borders in the world guarded by one of the world’s most advanced army. How could this happen.

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          1 year ago

          Perhaps the thousands of rockets fired at Israel that night and several attacks at multiple sides at the same time on a Jewish holiday had people distracted?

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      1 year ago

      i assume a lot of it is high tech and sensor based, that can all fail with hacking or bad interpretation of the data. Also, the infiltrators likely first flew over the fence and possibly disabled parts of it once they were inside to allow others to come in the conventional way.