How can the most powerful security service in the world be caught by surprise? How can a deployment by land, sea and air be carried out that has been rehearsed – and even publicized on social networks – without Israel knowing? These are two of the questions surrounding the attack Hamas of the weekend that have started a war that is looming long.

The Hamas incursion represents an unprecedented failure of the secret services, an attack that the CIA did not see coming either.

However, an official has assured The Associated Press that the Egyptian Intelligence Minister called Netanyahu ten days before to warn him that Hamas would be preparing an operation, information that came from the Israeli prime minister’s own office.

Yago Rodríguez, director of ‘The political room’, believes that Hamas has managed to surprise Israel, whose aviation “has not come into play in time”.

To this we must add extreme vigilance about where the border patrols are located, what perimeters they follow and how they act on days like the Sabbath, a festive day dedicated to rest and that could have caught Israel off guard.

Thus, Hamas managed 27 attacks in enemy territory, including the use of paragliders or the destruction of Israeli surveillance devices.