The militants are understood to have constructed a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza, where they practised a military landing
Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, hold a Palestinian flag as they destroy an Israeli tank in Gaza City on Saturday A distracted, disunited and deluded Israel has found itself vulnerable to Hamas terrorists to an extent it never imagined possible.
It’s not clear how its fighters could have trained openly in the tiny Gaza strip on the paragliders used to spearhead the assault, although earlier reports suggest some Hamas fighters may, which link Gaza to Egypt, but it is still extraordinary that it was able to smuggle in the necessary materials, and assemble thousands of Qassam rockets.
Dennis Ross, a former Middle East negotiator who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israel had been distracted by violence in the West Bank, leading to a “thin, under-prepared presence in the south.” But Israel’ s 9/11 moment has been years in the making. Its leaders believed Palestinians had been successfully caged in Gaza and the West Bank, and that they’d stay there, further weakened by the hostilities between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip., of the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs: “Israel’s entire strategy regarding the Gaza Strip appears to have collapsed.
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