Just a thought: How did Hamas get all that war materiel through...

[brush]

Israeli military checkpoints? Gaza is supplied totally through the checkpoints...water, food, clothing, building materials...everything has to come through the checkpoints yet Hamas somehow got thousands rockets, paragliding gear, automatic weapons, the whole works through the checkpoints.

Somebody had to be complicit in letting that happen.

Who? And who benefited from the attack happening?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. I would guess

Through the Egyptian border crossing.

[The Magistrate]

2. Tunnels In From The Egyptian Side

There are many.

[underpants]

3. I know that they use a lot of tunnels

Smuggling in weapons is a regular part of this.
As for paragliding equipment, that isn’t normally weaponized so maybe it wasn’t stopped.

I don’t know.

[BannonsLiver]

4. Here's a decent primer

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/middleeast/hamas-weaponry-gaza-israel-palestine-unrest-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

[C_U_L8R]

5. You know the Johnny Cash song "One Piece at a Time" ?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

6. Israel will conduct a post-mortem when the dust settles

That will be high on the list of questions, a long with "how are we now seeing alleged training films, yet the Mossad knew nothing?"

My guess, in a broad sense, is that this will be like Pearl Harbor or 9-11 - the pieces were all there but no one assembled the puzzle.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

7. Smuggling, probably?

And the rockets are homemade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket

Too bad the costs for materials for those rockets weren't used for more useful purposes.

[Simeon Salus]

12. Thanks for the link

Homemade rockets.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

13. To add

They dig up and use water pipes to make them.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/eu-funded-water-pipelines-hamas-rockets/#:~:text=In%202021%20footage%20emerged%20of,fashioned%20into%20home%2Dmade%20rockets.]

So much for them caring about access to water for their civilians.

[blm]

8. Most of the Israelis targeted were progressives

at the concert and the kibbutz.

Netanyahu ignored warnings.

Can’t help but be reminded of Bush. You can only hope they couldn’t possibly be capable of letting a tragic event happen.

[dem4decades]

9. A couple of ships were taken out in the port, I doubt it was because of undersized fish.

[Goonch]

11. 👇👇👇👁️👁️

[Dirty Socialist]

15. Bibi let them have it

Party meetings indicate this. Bibi wanted a functioning Hamas to get in the way of Palestinian independence

[diva77]

16. maybe chump'll pull a reagan - arrange for US citizens to be held as hostages past 2024 election

[Demovictory9]

17. Don't know..but I read that IDF watched Hamas practice in mock Israel towns..

IDF was secure in it's military superiority...