.IN THE EARLY hrs of October 7th Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization that runs Gaza, introduced much more than 2,000 rockets in the direction of Israel. Over a thousand Hamas fighters, some in motorised gliders, crossed the border between Israel as well as Gaza. They attacked private citizens on the streets of little Israeli towns as well as in their homes.
In the next two days they eliminated much more than 900 Israelis, an amount much going beyond the fatalities in the previous 19 years of conflict, and took about 150 prisoners. Israel was actually caught off-guard to some extent because Hamas had never carried out such a big assault. The country’s support building had supposed that in recent years Hamas had actually determined to refrain from wide-scale battle– which its own ability to carry out therefore was actually restricted.
They were wrong. Only just how highly effective is actually Hamas?