I posted this article a short while ago. If you read it carefully, you will see why Israel was not watching for a Hamas attack. The idea that Israeli authorities allowed or wanted 1400 people tortured, raped and butchered is untrue.
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2023/10/how-hamas-attack-took-israel-by-surprise.html
HOW THE HAMAS ATTACK TOOK ISRAEL BY SURPRISE
Daniel Greenfield October 31, 2023
A week before its attack Hamas agreed to another truce with Israel. The agreement negotiated by Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations traded an end to border attacks for more imports, a bigger fishing zone and more work permits that allowed over 20,000 Gaza Muslims to enter Israel.
The agreement reached between Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and Sukkot, the conclusion of the High Holy Days season, offered an end to the explosives and rocks being hurled at Israeli soldiers on the border and the incendiary balloons starting fires on Israeli farms. And terrorist attacks on civilians like the murder of Batsheva Nigri: a kindergarten teacher shot and killed while driving in her car with her 12-year-old daughter.
Qatar, a state sponsor of Hamas and an ally of the United States, claimed that it had “succeeded in de-escalating the situation in the Gaza Strip by mediating an understanding.”
Hamas ended the border riots and Israelis went into the Sukkot holiday with an apparent calm. The Israeli army and security forces continued to focus on the West Bank, where much of the violence appeared to be coming from, rather than the Gaza Strip which seemed quiet.
But the border attacks and the negotiated ceasefire had all been part of a feint.
[More at link]
But, I do get the overall con by the terrorists and how the Israelis could fall for it. Sort of puts the increasing explosions and exhibitions by hamas only 300 yards from the border fence more in perspective and why they could have been ignored. Could be explained away as trying to get a better deal.
If nothing else Israel won't be fooled again that's for sure.