Helit Barel, former director at the Israeli National Security Council says "It is quite clear that this attack caught Israel by surprise.
There is no way that such terrible consequences would have occurred if Israeli forces intelligence were at the kind of readiness that we know and expect.
Currently, we are in a state of war...There is a sequence of challenges and tasks at hand beginning with still getting all the areas down south where there were terrorist infiltrations completely cleared.
The forces are walking house by house and corner by corner making sure terrorists aren't hiding anywhere.
We have the larger task of making sure that all other arenas that Israel faces stay calm including the internal arena...I think it is inevitable that there will be very strong retributions within the Gaza Strip and I think it will be of a magnitude that we certainly have not seen before." Watch the full video here.
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