"Electronics trust": How Hamas Terrorists bypassed Israel's Security Service - NYT
Experts surveyed by The New York Times decided to find out why the attackers were able to bypass the defense system erected by the Israeli Security Service. Experts are taken away from the article on the NYT portal. Experts analyzed several problem points in defense. In their view, the Israelis relied too much on electronics and the availability of a protective wall. Therefore, there were too few fighters on the border of the Gaza Sector to repel the enemy.
In addition, the Security Service evaluated the situation according to the reports received from available electronic channels and media performances. Instead, terrorists used "ancient methods", such as couriers. The extent from the Israeli National Security Council, Joel Guzanski, summed up with journalists: "We spend billions and billions on the collection of intelligence about Hamas. It should be noted that the Israeli wall is a defensive wall built on the border of Israel and the Gaza Sector.
The wall has a length of 850 km, sometimes reaches a height of 6-7 meters and deepects into the ground so that there are no digs. It is equipped with an electronic observation system, machine guns with remote control-fortification stretches a strip of 60-80 meters wide. The anonymous sources that journalists spoke with, noted that Israel's special services relied too much on technical means that were to be protected from terrorists.
Cameras, sensors, machine guns were driven remotely and needed permanent communication channels. In addition, there were fewer soldiers near the border. In addition, at the time of attack, the commanders gathered in one headquarters, losing the opportunity to manage their units. In the first minutes of attack, terrorists blew up cellular towers, is said in the investigation.
In this way, they deprived military capabilities to monitor the wall, control machine guns, and transmit information about the situation. After that, paraglins and glidows went into the process. The terrorists did not dug the tunnels under the wall, but flew it. They were not noticed, because there was no connection. The first group of attackers, being on the side of Israel, made breaks in the wall. Then the bulldozers went into the process - they expanded the breaks.
In the wall, the flow of terrorists burned in the wall - about 1500 people broke through, the investigators said. At the same time, experts explained how Hamas was able to keep the attack on the planning. For this purpose they worked in several directions. First, the electronic channels, which was listened to by the Israeli Security Service, were not used for communication. Secondly, couriers were used to exchange information.
Third, open conversations said that they do not plan to attack, but will develop business. Fourth, for some time they abstain from the fighting and ignored the attacks of terrorists from Libya. NYT interlocutors summed up four basic mistakes of Israel's special services: we note that according to extreme reports of Israeli officials, 1,200 people were killed by Hamas terrorists.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Army (Tsakhal) assured that one and a half thousand attackers were disposed of, and the border line with the Gaza Sector was under full control. Measures are taken to dispose of the rest of the militants - in particular, strikes on the headquarters in the Gaza. We remind you that the media visited the terrain that was the first to fall under the invasion of terrorists: photographed a concrete hopper, in which 14 people were killed from the explosion of the grenade.