OTOH, modern anti-insurgency (and other anti-terrorism) warfare must -- if it is to have any chance of success -- must be full of "surprises" and new ways of doing old things, and the news in breaking situations like this one can make a lot of us scratch our heads until the last moves are made.
As part of its current counterinsurgency training, our army -- and probably the IDF -- uses John A. Nagl's book, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. It's an amazing study, one that gives you, on almost every page, an "I knew that, I just hadn't seen it that way!" revelation.