Israeli and US officials say Palestinian resistance group Hamas' massive attacks brought back memories of 1973 Mideast war, when Egypt and Syria caught the Israeli army off guard.
As Israel has reeled from a deadly attack by Palestinian resistance groups who broke through barriers around besieged Gaza and roamed at will, defence chiefs faced growing questions over how the disaster could have happened.
"As we can see it, Israel was completely surprised, by a very well-coordinated attack," he told a briefing with reporters. For the past 18 months, as Israeli violence has raged across the West Bank, Gaza has been relatively quiet, apart from sporadic cross-border clashes mainly involving the smaller Islamic Jihad movement, with Hamas remaining largely on the sidelines.
"It was a security failure, undermining what was thought to be an aggressive and successful layered approach toward Gaza by Israel," he said.The military suffered significant losses, and Palestinian resistance groups said they had captured several times more than dozens of soldiers.
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