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To: Les H who wrote (40193)	1/15/2024 8:37:30 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51421

They were Israel's 'eyes on the border' - but their Hamas warnings went unheard To some of them it became a dark joke: who would be on duty when the inevitable attack came? We would see them practising every day what the raid would look like," Noa, who is still serving in the military, tells the BBC. "They even had a model tank that they were practising how to take over. "They also had a model of weapons on the fence and they would also show how they would blow it up, and co-ordinate how to take over the forces and kill and kidnap." Eden Hadar, another observer from the base, remembers that at the start of her service, Hamas fighters were doing mainly fitness training in the section she looked over. But in the months before she left the military in August, she noticed a shift to "actual military training". Several women also describe bombs being planted and detonated near the fence - known as Israel's Iron Wall - seemingly to test its strength. Some of the watchwomen also speak of growing incidents of attempted incursions. bbc.com They were apparently unarmed for the most part. 20 of them were killed in the invasion. I have a neighbor who works in remote surveillance. He spends all day in his room, which is secured and off-limits to his wife, watching activity in places like Gaza. The IDF probably has those units as well. Reports produced over many months were blocked by the leadership. There was a confidence in this and other news reports that an invasion could be manageable by the IDF and beneficial to the politicians and the settler movement in authorizing a larger military action against the indigenous population to support land acquisition.