• Dubito_Cogito@lemmy.world
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      8 months 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

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      The “wall” is a chain link fence, Hamas just cut it down where they wanted to sally out through

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          8 months 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?

    • nucawysi@lemmy.world
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      8 months 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.