Hundreds dead, thousands wounded—Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shows the limits of even the most advanced and invasive surveillance dragnets as full-scale war erupts.
Also, consider the amount of time groups like Hamas and PIJ have had to build an underground tunnel network to move people and armament near the border, for sudden large attacks just like two weekends ago.
Hamas has been in power since 2006, with any and all local government resources at their disposal, they can move a lot of stuff without any prying eyes seeing anything.
This sounds like an extreme example of a policy only targeting the innocent. The average Palestinian trying to cross the border into Israel is going to be surveilled far more than a Hamas agent in an underground tunnel, are they not? (In the same way, after Israel called various atheistic humanitarian groups in Palestine “terrorist” groups and forced them to disband, only the actual terrorist groups dared remain…)
It turns out that, in extreme circumstances, if you have nothing to hide, you truly do have everything to fear.
Also, consider the amount of time groups like Hamas and PIJ have had to build an underground tunnel network to move people and armament near the border, for sudden large attacks just like two weekends ago.
Hamas has been in power since 2006, with any and all local government resources at their disposal, they can move a lot of stuff without any prying eyes seeing anything.
This sounds like an extreme example of a policy only targeting the innocent. The average Palestinian trying to cross the border into Israel is going to be surveilled far more than a Hamas agent in an underground tunnel, are they not? (In the same way, after Israel called various atheistic humanitarian groups in Palestine “terrorist” groups and forced them to disband, only the actual terrorist groups dared remain…)
It turns out that, in extreme circumstances, if you have nothing to hide, you truly do have everything to fear.