Militants broke through barriers around Gaza and killed scores of civilians yesterday.
JERUSALEM: As Israel reeled from a deadly attack by Hamas militants who broke through barriers around Gaza and roamed at will, killing scores of civilians in Israeli towns, defence chiefs faced growing questions over how the disaster could have happened.
“As we can see it, Israel was completely surprised, by a very well coordinated attack,” he told a briefing with reporters. For the past 18 months as violence has raged across the West Bank, Gaza had been relatively quiet, apart from sporadic cross border clashes mainly involving the smaller Islamic Jihad movement with Hamas remaining largely on the sidelines.
“It was a security failure, undermining what was thought to be an aggressive and successful layered approach toward Gaza by Israel,” he said. The military suffered significant losses and Palestinian militant groups said they had captured dozens of soldiers.
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