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“We were the scapegoat of the government,” she said. “They (Hamas) warned us three weeks before they taught us a lesson. A huge crowd arrived at the road. They burned fields. They sent incendiary balloons to burn the fields, and the army didn’t take it seriously.”
That seems like an important part of this article. Not to say* what they did wasn't horrific, but seems like something.
Yes the idea that the Israeli govt had no idea the attack was coming makes no sense if this warning happened 3 weeks before the attack.
I don't have a great perspective on Israel and Hamas but all reports seem to be converging on the point that Bibi failed Israel and may have also deliberately fucked over Gaza.
That and Egypt also warned Israel that an attack was coming some time before too