.IN THE EARLY hours of October 7th Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist company that runs Gaza, launched more than 2,000 rockets in the direction of Israel. Over a 1000 Hamas boxers, some in motorised gliders, crossed the border in between Israel as well as Gaza. They attacked civilians on the roads of small Israeli towns and also in their homes.
In the next 2 days they got rid of more than 900 Israelis, a figure much going beyond the deaths in the previous 19 years of dispute, and took about 150 prisoners. Israel was captured off guard partially considering that Hamas had never ever executed such a sizable assault. The country’s protection business had presumed that in recent years Hamas had actually made a decision to avoid wide-scale confrontation– and that its own ability to do so was confined.
They were wrong. Just how strong is actually Hamas?