I don't buy this explanation! I don't think anyone expected Hamas to go high tech before their next major attack on Israel.
Did Hamas e.g. not use drones to knock out sophisticated, but unmanned surveillance towers along the Gaza border? That should have been immediately a high alert warning signal.
The fencing and barriers along the Gaza border were apparently also too weak, which is very surprising.
It was apparently a well planned and coordinated large scale multi-pronged surprise attack using various means overwhelming Israeli defenses.
"... This is really an unprecedented and radical attack by Hamas into Israel, the first in 50 years of this scale. And of course it took place just as Israel was marking the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, so obviously timing very deliberately chosen.
It was in some ways a low tech attack in that the terrorists used guns and knives and motorcycles. There were some paragliders, there was a water element to it as well. But for the most part, they evaded detection by the Israeli and American intelligence services because they did go low tech. ..."
The top of one of the attacked surveillance towers along the Gaza border
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