MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
There is one pedestrian only crossing at Rafah, (all freight goes through Israel, if supplies are making it in via Egypt then it is what people can carry or being dragged through tunnels) the border is a double wall some 30-40ft high of concrete on the Gaza side and steel on the Egyptian one. We're not talking about the kind of fence you could climb over. Besides Egypt doesn't want large numbers of Palestinian refugees either, too great a danger they might not go back when the dust settles.
I don't think Hamas had/has any master plan beyond cause as much chaos as possible. They aren't an army where the generals have a grand strategy and co-ordinate with the officers on the ground each of which has his own set of instructions. I suspect each group of fighters that came through had no more of a directive than head in a given direction and shoot whoever you see. They probably weren't aiming for that festival it's just that one group stumbled across it and decided it was a soft target. That would have made them all the more deadly, the IDF had no idea where they were and what targets they were after. Any groups that didn't make it back before the IDF sealed the border off probably reckoned they were going to end up getting shot so might as well take some with them. For all the IDF know some groups might have decided to hide out for a few days to give the Israeli a false sense of security.
There a reporter on Sky News last night reporting from the Israeli build-up on the Gaza border, there was a 155mm tracked howitzer on a low loader behind her. You don't take that kind of hardware with you unless you are planning on doing a lot of damage to wherever it is you're going.
Have they have actually captured any and drove them back to Gaza? I know they managed to knock at least one out with a drone but stealing them doesn't seem very smart. They're a bit big to hide and I imagine the IAF will track them and knock them out from the air.
