So lots of warnings, but nobody at the top put it together — at least in part because Hamas had been doing things for several years, but never actually broke through. Until they did.
[IsraelTimes] Father of fallen soldier tells Channel 12 his son saw dozens of terror operatives in combat drills with jeeps, assault riles near border with Israel: ‘The writing was on the wall’Squads of Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...operatives were training in plain view of Israel Defense Forces observations posts and surveillance cameras along the border four days before the terror group’s shock October 7 attack on southern Israel, according to a television news report on Wednesday evening.