few things - humint in gaza is hard (unlike in west bank). there are estimations that they didn't use phones/internet for planning so sigint didn't work - aft

few things - humint in gaza is hard (unlike in west bank). there are estimations that they didn't use phones/internet for planning so sigint didn't work - after "traditional" protests on the fence that went on for a while Israel thought that it bought some quiet with giving more work permits in Israel and allowing money transfers to Gaza (this is how it usually works). The outcome of this was transfer of good chunk of combat forces that is usually stationed around Gaza to west bank to some counter-terror activities in past few weeks - as opening move hamas bombed from drones observation towers with cameras which are positioned along border essentially blinding IDF.they also bombed and burned down some kind of communication center of IDF in the area what created communication and coordination problems