"The assessment is based on terrorist interrogations and the police’s investigation of the incident, among other things, which reveal that the terrorists intended to infiltrate Re’im and other kibbutzim near the Gaza border.
According to a police source, the investigation also indicates that an IDF combat helicopter that arrived to the scene and fired at terrorists there apparently also hit some festival participants."
Goddamn. How fucked is Hamas’s intelligence gathering if they don’t know their AO is going to be occupied by an openly announced and public music festival? Did they not read their intel arm’s notes when they got passed up the chain? Is their lone spy incapable of reading? I understand the festival’s location was changed two days before the attack, but Jesus, thousands of people found their way there just fine. You’d think an organization that claims to be representative of a national struggle would show a little more competence.
But I suppose I expect too much from terrorists.
Only as fucked as IDF’s, which had billions of dollars of funding and complete air and border control over Gaza and still couldn’t see the attack coming.
Hah. True. It would be a comedy of errors if it wasn’t for the tragedy of thousands of civilians dying right now because of it.
Why the fuck is a music festival even going on during all of this?
It was planned and begun before the attack. It had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the attack started.
Yup, according to Wikipedia the location was proginally in southern Israel and moved two days before the festival. Hamas’ attack planning wouldn’t have included the festival.