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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Shortly before attackers from Gaza poured into Israel …intelligence detected a surge in activity on some of the Gazan militant networks it monitors. Realizing something unusual was happening, they sent an alert to the Israeli soldiers guarding the Gazan border… But the warning wasn’t acted upon, either because the soldiers didn’t get it or the soldiers didn’t read it.
Shortly afterward, Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, sent drones to disable some of the Israeli military’s cellular communications stations and surveillance towers along the border… [and] remote-controlled machine guns that Israel had installed on its border fortifications, removing a key means of combating a ground attack.”