Failure at the Fence (full documentary) | FRONTLINE +

[@scottsimon8543]

Oct. 7 proved that technology for guarding borders can never be a replacement for personnel on the ground.

[@gandydancer9710]

No, it didn't. What it proved is that technology has to be backed up by robust rules of engagement. Saying your helicopters can't fire at armed men coming through the holes they've blasted in a fence unless you have confirming ground observers to sign off on a kinetic response is not that.

[@SungazerDNB]

To me the 7th of October mainly seems to prove that the world left Gaza to fend for itself by forsaking them for over 70 years.

[@MsBhappy]

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, aid to Palestinians totaled over $40 billion between 1994 and 2020. No other country has anything like the UNRWA, which has enabled the ridiculous concept of passing down refugee status across generations to settled Palestinians and calling entire 50 year old neighbourhoods refugee camps. Hamas leaders are billionaires and have zero regard for Gazan lives.​@@SungazerDNB

[@maxanderson8872]

​@MsBhappy you could give a billion dollars to inmates in a prison, nothing they could buy will change that they are fundamentally trapped and oppressed. Hamas and their acts are unforgivable, but it is not hard to see why it happened and how they were able to recruit so many Palestinians to their cause

[@gandydancer9710]

@@maxanderson8872 The claim MsBhappy refuted was that the Gazans were "forsaken", not that Arab desire to kill Jews are incomprehensible. Nor is a Jewish impulse to exterminate Gaza incomprehensible. What's your point?

[@whydoyouwanttoknow4464]

Frontline is no joke!! They'll report on stories that ABC, CNN, FOX, NBC or CBS won't report on. This is what I call fair and balanced reporting. Keep up the good work!

[@TheOpenSociety777]

Frontline is totally biased

[@fakeemailuh]

Yes mostly..until they succumb to pressure and start censoring their producers/ directors as they did with their documentary called Netanyahu, America & the War in Gaza -- a few days after release, it got pulled. Unfortunate shameful act by PBS management

[@alichahin]

lol Balanced my ass.. they reporting only the Israeli side of things.

[@TheOpenSociety777]

@@alichahin well look at the last names of the donor Foundations and their frontline producers. Its commonplace in our media, politics and donor class

[@whydoyouwanttoknow4464]

@@alichahin yup! But this episode is also telling you that Israel f-up and why. So stop thinking one sided and open your minds

[@robertmclernon4836]

"A line is only as strong as it's weakest link." An old military statement.

[@ahappyyotubeuser9851]

Why would Israel have to hold a line at all? that is what needed to be asked first.

[@michaelrunk5930]

​@@ahappyyotubeuser9851The question goes much deeper then that. Why are the Palestine denied basic human rights and dignity for 56+ years. Why is Israel allowed to brutalize and oppress the Palestine people. If you really listen to Palestine what they are asking for is very simplistic. They want the right to return to their lands and homes. But more importantly they want to be treated with basic human rights and dignity. The reason Hamas was born and exist in the first place is because of Israel brutality and oppression. That is what has lead to this escalation of violence. People want to talk about about all the atrocities Hamas does but ignores the atrocities Israel commits. Did you know in 2023 IDF killed 492 Palestine in West Bank. Those deaths never made a ripple. No one cares about the Palestine no one cares if their basic human rights and dignity are stripped from them. No one is willing to stand up to Israel and say no this is wrong. Hamas is the only one. Hamas made sure on Oct 7th that the Palestine people plight is no longer ignored. They filled the void that the world refused to fill. Which is standing up for what's right. Here a little unknown fact that many of you are ignoring. The security Fence and wall around Gaza isn't just monitored by cameras most of the time. The vast majority of IDF military usually guards that security wall around Gaza. However on Oct 7th the bulk of the IDF was pulled back to the West Bank. They were harassing and terrorizing Palestine there. When Hamas broke through the fence they expected to meet heavy resistance. Most expected to be killed attacking the military instalations. However because IDF was pulled back to West Bank. Hamas uttler annihilated those military instalations. The few IDF soldiers at those instalations were caught completely off guard and were slaughtered. They didn't even have chance to get to vehicles or to weapons. The attack was so devastating that it is complete and utter embarrassment to Israel and the IDF. Hamas was not expecting to take these military instalations. They expected to be forced to retreat or be killed in the process. Once they took the instalations there was no plan for what to do next. So they pushed further in to Israel reeking havoc and dearh with no goal or purpose really. There was also no real leadership going on. It was just a free for all. This is why Oct 7th happen the way it did and why it was so bad. I don't think Hamas intended for things to go as far as it did becauae they were banking on there to be heavy resistance. The attack showed not only failure on Israel part but also how Hamas lacks any kind real command structure.

[@What-a-drag-it-is]

​@@michaelrunk5930 Is that why they've denied every peace regarding a two state solution so many times over the past 70 years? How about all the peaceful Gazans who cross the border to work or the ones who live peacefully in Israel.

[@What-a-drag-it-is]

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.

[@user-oi4tj4pp8q]

Hamas were trained and instructed by the Russian government Nazi organisation Wagner

[@woudytreez2755]

"We didn't think..." "We were not prepared for it". This is the insanity...

[@ronmadar8986]

Currupted fat and rich army. Who knows if we are prepared in the west if the Israelies were not prepared.

[@OlgaHolger]

yeah and we this all over the world right now, people waking up too late ! I hope we can manage to save ourself and beat the demons all over the world. This has become a world war between the evil and the good

[@randallcauley9484]

It's also a total lie. Part of the performative facade. Love seeing how often the media inside the rogue regime tells on itself (accusations as confessions): "Actors!" is what they're always spitting at the camera if something despicable and cruel they're doing as standard practice is exposed, and might cause a human reaction against their sadistic genocide.

[@ak47rockin47]

Basically, the fence upheld the job it was designed to do. The “failure” was the underestimation of the threat, which would’ve necessitated a more durable design of the fence.

[@thims1961]

Hamas 2018-19 Border Demonstrations Gave Them The Political Capitol To Upgrade The Anti-Terror Fence Line Into A True Wall With Hesco Bastions & Anti-Climb Mesh! They spent millions of dollars digging up land & moving it around at published demonstration points but blew off building a permanent Hesco Bastion Wall with Anti-Climb Mesh.

[@williamdempsey-tf6zu]

Basically, the barrier held, what was not anticipated-and should have been- was the proven persistence and willful determination of the resistance- as these freedom fighters are called. What are they resisting but oppression and capricious domination wrapped in the cloak of colonialism

[@thims1961]

@@williamdempsey-tf6zu It took them minutes to cut through the fence line & cement walls, Full Stop! If they'd have run a triple layer of Hesco Bastions filled with sand, rocks & debris it would have taken far longer & cost far less. They could not have feasible done a worse job! That the IDF Soldiers & Kibbutz's were refused fire arms of any kind was ignorant arrogance! Ever single man, women & teen should on the Kibbutz's & IDF Base have had smg or carbine

[@heroin_heart]

It was intentional. They wanted this war in exactly the same way that the warnings regarding 911 were ignored.

[@deaddudegaming]

No the failure was that at the time that Hamas attacked almost all the IDF forces that guard the wall were pulled back in to the West Bank and were in the West Bank terrorizing the Palestine there. Hamas never expected their attack to be so successful. They expected the moment they broke through the fences to be met with heavy resistance. Instead they realize they were free to do whatever they wanted. What solider were still left behind were not even alert when the attacked happen. Many of the Israeli soldiers were killed before they could even get to a weapon. If I was Israel and I had just pulled my entire military force to another area leaving barely any one on the boarder of Gaza and Israel. I would make sure what soldiers were left would be on high alert and weapon in hand. Of course I would never have pulled my entire military force away from a boarder that held an enemy that would see to destroy me.

[@TheCommunicationCoach]

Anything can be overtaken or torn down or gotten through. It's easier to destroy than build.

[@merovmerov7631]

Especially when people feel like they have nothing to lose.

[@alexcarter8807]

Well, look at Gaza. It was a beautiful area, on the beach, perfect for growing crops, fishing, etc., it could be a beautiful place - except it was filled with the equivalent of crackheads. Hence, it looks like the love child of a dump and a toxic waste site.

[@MrGMansour1]

Free Palestine!!!

[@FeezFBaby]

@@MrGMansour1Facts 💯💯💯

[@ChessNoobX]

In science it's called entropy...law of chaos

[@chrixMiller]

Nice to see PBS posting stories as they happen again

[@benjaminringrose536]

This ain't your mom's PBS

[@jamesm3471]

@@benjaminringrose536if it’s not her PBS, then whose PBS is it?

[@kani6855]

Pbs took vice spot 😭😭

[@touchofgrey5372]

FRONTLINE + @WashingtonPost...Huh??? I never in a million minute would have thought that the most trusted news source (Frontline) would be doing a 'Documentary' in collaboration with the jewish owned (Jeff Bezos) news rag! Nothing is sacred any more; is it?!

[@stewpacalypse7104]

​@jamesm3471 meaning that it's not just Frugal Gourmet and Woodwright Shop anymore.

[@micchaelsanders6286]

It turns out "Allahu Akbar" is 99% of their vocabulary.

[@philldavies7940]

They live in the worlds sh1teholes, always killing each other, always being beaten by everybody else and haven't progressed scientifically, medically , socially or militarily for over 1000 years, any advances are only because the West has led the way. So you'd have thought by now that if Allah exists, he really must hate Muslims.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

Which is exactly why the attack dwindled out. All they were prepared to do was kill, but the were NOT prepared to hold power. That was their chance to overthrow Israel and they blew it.

[@aymenyahyaoui1771]

Than your hearing must be checked

[@ChannelMath]

racists have the most clever jokes!

[@jackofalltrades3378]

@@ChannelMath haha people who rely on the word "racist" to resolve their disputes are even funnier... it's like they're a one-trick pony. They're so dense that they don't realize you're whole point was to insult white Christians ;) Although I'm far from a racist, it's one of the least insulting things you could say to anyone. Racism = free speech. Let people be free.

[@Reignor99]

The guy at 17:20 is telling the truth, the fence wasn't meant to stop an organized assault, it was for deterring small raids. The Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall had the same limitations.

[@deaddudegaming]

Yes because normally the boarder between Gaza and Israel is heavily guarded by the IDF. The day of the attack IDF or the bulk of it was pulled back in to the West Bank were they were terrorizing and brutalizing the Palestine people. What few IDF soldiers were left behind were not even on alert (which you would think they would be on high alert given the circumstance.) none of the soldiers had a chance to even put up a fight because they were killed before they could even get to their weapons or vehicles and tanks and what not. I don't know about you but if I was Netanyahu and I was pulling the bulk of my military force from the boarder then I would instruct the soldiers left guarding to be on high alert and stand guard ready for anything. Not sleeping in their bunks. Yes almost all the soldiers were killed in their bunks.

[@StormsandSaugeye]

@@deaddudegaming Wrong on all accounts. The reason that the Bases were at lower manning was because October 7th was a holiday and a lot of IDF personnel were Celebrating simchat torah with their families. The west bank was quiet too on that day.

[@minaguta4147]

FRONTLINE creates such important and timely documentaries. Thank you.

[@TheOpenSociety777]

Can you imagine how many more thousands of israelis would have died if there wasn't that wall there to lessen the amount of terrorists and slow hamas' advance? This documentary seems like anti border wall propaganda , but it's actually self evident why we need to FINISH our Southern border wall 🧱🧱🧱

[@osamafly]

It’s more like bad timely bullshit 🤣🤣

[@MarcSherwood]

@@osamafly yet, here you are.

[@shobhitsniper4979]

Yeah to read between the lines ​@@MarcSherwood

[@YasirWalid-r6q]

truth is on October 7th Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the army for the preparations of demolishing masjid al aqsa mosque to welcome the antichrist but failed ..

[@judywilliams1928]

I know that MANY Canadians ARE BLOCKED from seeing truth#!

[@sportscentral8655435]

Explain

[@alexcarter8807]

Try using a VPN?

[@wills2552]

@@alexcarter8807 But they shouldn't need to

[@Planet_Xplorer]

No they are not. I'm a Canadian watching this bss

[@EWB820]

We’re blocked from reposting it on social media which is insane. We can still see news from the sources.

[@ChelFoster]

Thank you to all the Frontline staff for always propducing great documentaries

[@72marshflower15]

Tantura documentary It proves what Israel is..

[@augiemares3830]

God words is clear enough that a severly undeveloped brain of a child can understand . The keeper of the gate does not do his job in vain

[@billymadison8574]

​@@72marshflower15 Just proves that both sides are capable of & have committed horrific atrocities. Neither side is a 'good guy'

[@Andrew-Locksley691]

At 24:04 you could hear his heart pounding as he embraced his neighbor (due to the fact he was wearing a microphone on his chest )AMAZING!

[@hadihasan1903]

Colonialist are afraid 😅

[@pdst3]

@@hadihasan1903so afraid that Gaza is now a pile of rocks. And you’re happy?

[@MrTripcore]

Acting up for the cameras

[@Andrew-Locksley691]

@MrTripcore that's some pretty good acting if he can regulate his heartbeat for the cameras. Just saying.

[@ee.creative]

And your r@pist friends are now dead, Hasan.

[@lowridingtrucks88]

Frontline dous amazing work, i listened to them since childhood

[@TheOpenSociety777]

They are biased disinformation

[@mrfake675]

They also make propaganda

[@JeanineH]

I liked them until this one program bc it had to be every word approved by Israeli & they are THEOCCUPIERS!!!!! The bad guys, the terrorists, not the Palestinians

[@TJ24050]

You give your enemy years to map out your defensives and underestimate their willingness to kill you and die in the attack. You will fail 100% of the time.

[@Juljularchaeo]

When the world forces you into that situation… yes that is what happens

[@jakobaa9031]

I totally agree. Putting 2 million people in a prison and throwing away the key.. What did Israel expect?

[@milckshakebeans8356]

​@jakobaa9031 do you think hamas's rhetoric and goals were different when gaza was given to them? They wanted to do this massacre before israel even started blockading and closing gaza off.

[@jakobaa9031]

@@milckshakebeans8356 No I dont. Do you remember when Israel called Hamas an 'asset'? Or remember that Israel has allowed suitcases filled with cash to be delivered to Hamas for YEARS?

[@milckshakebeans8356]

@@jakobaa9031 First this has nothing to do with your previous point so I guess you conceded that one. Do you think that if Israel invaded Gaza then it would've been better for the palestinians? I think that looking back Israel shouldn't have underestimated hamas's willingness for murder. But I bet that if Israel had done anything to prevent this from happening the entire world including you would condemn them. Israel had done everything it could to make peace with the palestinians in gaza and that was to a fault unfortunately.

[@enlightened3am]

I appreciate this documentary very much. Great work!

[@taliabraver]

This will never happen in Israel again!Just makes them stronger!

[@PatrickHenryggSon]

The fence did its job 100% of what a fence can do. Who didn't do their job is the IDF. Goals of a military attack are surprise and using imagination. A military has no excuse for being surprised or lacking their enemy's imagination. Also militaries plan on what their enemy is capable of doing not what they think their enemy is going to do. Since Hamas trained in the open in Gaza for a year flying paramotors, practicing breaching fences and walls with live explosives, assaulting cinder block buildings with the Star of David on them, mockup guard towers and Israeli Merkava tanks and were overheard saying on their radios "I've reached the Kibbutz" it was known what Hamas could do. On Oct. 4 Israeli settlers stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque. On Oct 7 Palestinians launched Operation Al Aqsa Flood to capture military and civilian hostages to bring back to Gaza to exchange for hundreds of Palestinian men women and children held in Israeli jails. When the IDF reached the Kibbutz there were Hamas fighters with hostages and civilians locked in their bomb shelters. Hamas had AK-47 rifles and some RPG-7 antitank armor-piercing rockets.The IDF had infantry with M-16 rifles, Merkeva tanks with 120 mm high explosive rounds, 50. cal machine guns, 7.62mm machine guns, Apache ground attack helicopter with nose-mounted 30mm chain machine gun, high explosive rockets and Hellfire anti-tank missiles. The aftermath in the Kibbutz is the IDF fighting Hamas and killing all of them and some hostages in 5 hours. edit: Why there was a music festival with hundreds of kids in a war zone 3 miles from Gaza where journalist have to wear body armor and helmets and people are supposed to be able to reach a bomb shelter in 15 seconds after a Red Alert rocket attack alarm goes off I have no idea

[@oleggold]

Not going to comment on all of your nonsense. Just the Nova part. What do you call a war zone? What type of war was in the are during this time? What do you define as a "war zone"? Seems that you are lacking some basic knowledge.

[@DavidRGD]

they were simply just thinking that they were the victors, but the vanquished doesn't say they are vanquished. oh and IDF not doing their job? They do, just... not where are they supposed to be.... they're somewhere else entirely (Bank).

[@louisazraels7072]

yeah the fence did its job pretty well actually, the attackers all had to reveal themselves to cross it, there was just no response forces

[@kehindebamgbopa3037]

Obviously, you're one of those who believe that it all started on Oct 7th!@@oleggold

[@DDDSSDDDSSDDDSS]

There were no kids at the 3 day drug fuled rave party for mostly off duty soldiers. Stop your lies. And the burnt cars were destroyed by hellfire missles and rockets from helecopters obviously.

[@sharkykzn5846]

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends." ~ Helen Keller. Having been in the policing and security industry most of my life, this has always been my go-to.

[@jimwerther]

I like it. Thank you.

[@b1r2y3n]

Yeah don’t use that oven mitt, just grab the pan with faith cause there is no security in nature. Sorry but that quote is a jumbled rambling that isn’t grounded in reality. To take a failure and extend it to the idea that defense doesn’t work begs idiocy.

[@sharkykzn5846]

Compare apples with apples, conflict is not home baking. Safety is purely perception. We can make ourselves feel safe and secure, but are we guaranteed that? No, we can only mitigate.

[@jimwerther]

@@b1r2y3n I think we all understand that Helen Keller wasn't advocating playing Russian Roulette as a form of relaxation. The quote clearly means that those who never leave the house as a means of avoiding getting run over by a truck are just as likely to have their roof cave in, or die of psychiatric issue overload. Reasonable precautions yes, overcautious no.

[@richcook2007]

​@@sharkykzn5846conflict is not home baking. That concept is a little beyond him.

[@projekcja]

One thing that seems really weak about all these remote controlled guns is how much of an obvious target they are. They're static, their position is easy to see and target from anywhere, and the enemy knows exactly where these all these guns are months in advance. Seems pretty naive to expect they wouldn't be taken out early in a fight.

[@jahidulmawla677]

The problem was, they never thought that they would get attacked like that. Even the guy from the fence authority was saying it wasn’t built to withheld an army.

[@oleggold]

They worked well until they didn't. Sometimes you need a mistake to find the weakspot and solve it. Unfortunately it came at a great cost.

[@YallaMiami]

Are these people that dumb to believe their government will put 2 million people in a concentration camp and they won’t ever try to break free?

[@Tazdeviloo7]

​@@jahidulmawla677But the IDF knew about the plan for Oct 7th months in advance.

[@jimwerther]

​@@Tazdeviloo7 They thought it was beyond Hamas's capabilities. Terrible miscalculation.

[@johnchester7476]

I used to think I I could be a journalist, I was wrong this would overwhelm me

[@judybryson7185]

So chilling and tragic 😔😔😔😢

[@tossempossum4886]

Always a reminder that technology won't always be reliable..

[@deaddudegaming]

except they weren't relying on technology. The Gaza boarder under normal circumstance even before Oct 7th was heavily guarded. However on Oct 7th the bulk of the IDF was pulled back to the West Bank where they were brutalizing and terrorizing Palestine in the west bank. It why it took 6 hours for them to respond. The few soldier left along the boarder were slaughtered with out ever having a chance to get to a weapon. They weren't even remotely put on alert. Which should have been the case if the vast majority of the forces were pulled off the boarder.

[@nienie68]

The general of the IDF and other intelligence heads were warned about activities on the boarder. They were informed in the evening and replied that they will look into it in the morning. Well morning came and this happened. It was not an intelligence failure. It was human recklessness.

[@leon19736]

It was much more complicated than what you explained. The head of Shin Bet was all night awake because there was a warning from Gaza. There wasn't enough warning

[@nienie68]

@@leon19736 I understand that it was also a holiday but they should have deployed troops. Anyway I know that most of the terrorists were already inside Israel. They attacked the kibbutzim in the morning but the army bases were fighting them all night long.

[@UCantHandleTheTruth1]

They didn’t do anything because…THEY WERE A PART OF THE ATTACK!!

[@chato555]

Not reckleness, they allowed Hamas to make that entry and slaughter to have major excuse for final elimination of Palestine "problem". Visible from the plane.

[@brera2434]

​@@nienie68 No, they weren't. They entered at 06:29, under the cover.of the massive rocket barrage they started at that point. They had been training along the fence for months, though. And collecting info for decades likely.

[@Arcenia13]

Appreciate you Frontline for sharing your reports. It’s a shame how hatred brings a wildfire of destruction in people’s livelihoods.

[@howdeedoodee6603]

Es ist immer wichtig, die Ursachen zu benennen. Danke für die neutrale Sicht.

[@klartextnews]

Neutral? 😂

[@ericah6546]

​@@klartextnews If listing cold mathematical facts with no emotional mumbojumbo is not neutral to you then you are brainwashed by something!

[@howdeedoodee6603]

@AlexseiMikhailov I lost that face 4o years before

[@leslieiannottacronin2176]

They barely scratched the surface of complexity, and horror.

[@soulsmouls]

Most Israelis killed were soldiers. The rest killed by IDF.

[@patrickmcnamara2755]

No I think this covers it. No rape etc occurred

[@zionist424]

@@patrickmcnamara2755 you are wrong

[@Aussie_Truth]

​@zionist424 if rapes had occurred, as yet, Israel hasn't allowed independent investigators from going to Israel. Because Israel has said it's anti-semitic to even question their verdict.

[@mzbatonrougebeauty5267]

​@@zionist424Israeli journalists reported on TV 2 days ago that alot of the most horrible things about women and kids were a lie

[@susiefairfield7218]

Sometimes you put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down ~ Socrates

[@lisawise9849]

You mean what Savages will do to break them down

[@uzeir7082]

Go out and touch some grass@@lisawise9849

[@b3llyfull]

​@lisawise9849 You cant win let it go. Isreal got they butt kicked by dudes in flip flops. How embarrassing jokes on them thinking they can lock 2 mil people in an open air prison thinking they wasnt gonna do anything to get out after 16 years

[@susiefairfield7218]

@lisawise9849 We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.- Joseph Campbell

[@oleggold]

This isn't the case.

[@PierreSt-Laurent]

Thank You so much for being there.

[@honesttroll]

Walls are never meant to stop just like safes are not secure. Its designed to buy time for a response

[@Crusader143d]

Both merely to show intent.

[@animula6908]

The world is roiling with hate. It’s scary how everyone can feel it, but no one seems capable of stopping it. Something is out there, inside us all, that can’t be reasoned with or made to feel pity. How it gets through our defenses is beside the point. You can’t stop such things with walls.

[@Caffeinegoesinface]

💯 the walls (that are purely to stop people from entering/exiting areas) are a sign of humanity failing

[@mr.invisible3770]

WOW that’s IDF soldier was extremely thoughtful and foresaw the responsibility they have

[@IAmNumber4000]

Netanyahu's pride was more important than the lives of his people, that much is clear.

[@soggypaws4944]

And he had been warned by Mossad that Hamas was planning something he was too busy trying to change the judicial system to avoid prison. But Oct 7th was a gift to him and now he is a maniac trying to draw the US into a full on war with Iran. Netanyahu needs to be stopped. How many Palestinians and Lebanese need to die to avenge Oct 7th?

[@tomf9253]

No kidding, Einstein - what would YOU have done differently

[@IAmNumber4000]

@@tomf9253 Uhhh, NOT commit genocide perhaps?

[@deaddudegaming]

It wasn't pride. I can't prove it but he knew the attack was coming and wanted it to happen. That's why he pulled the entire bulk of the IDF from the boarder back in to the West Bank. He wanted the attack to succeed so he could have a justification for going to war with Hamas. This war not only keeps him in power but keeps him from going to prison.

[@zarakbabar1558]

PBS should do a documentary on the attackers, what made them attack the towns. What was their motivation.

[@TheDiplomat456]

72 virgins

[@zuleimahernandez8037]

Western Media isn’t interested in that

[@khalidjalal4163]

The people of Gaza concentration camp has every right to fight for their freedom. The colonial settler state should stop steeling palestinian people's land. Occupation was their motive. Free Palestine.

[@fontainhead]

Like you don’t already know?

[@alexcarter8807]

@@waschberserker This. Arabs are supposed to care about each other, if the Arab countries - amounting to a huge amount of land - each agreed to take in a proportional share of the "Palestinians" the way Israel has taken in Jews from all over the world, there wouldn't be a problem.

[@shatchett0]

Funny. The title led me to believe that this was about the United States border. But then I remembered that our border is not important.

[@Smuggler169]

Same

[@littermonks]

What would behoove someone to build a commune in a war zone and assume there was no risk?

[@kellygarland63]

They worked with Palestinian citizens extensively, trying to help.

[@heidiharris_]

You’re asking the wrong question based on a wrong assumption.

[@subcitizen2012]

Ideological denial and delusion.

[@littermonks]

@@heidiharris_ can you be slightly more descriptive?

[@heidiharris_]

⁠​⁠I don’t think so? You asked the wrong question based on a wrong assumption. The assumption in your statement being Palestine is a war zone. It isn’t. What’s happening in modern day Palestine is literally the textbook definition of an apartheid regime. Israel is illegally occupying Palestine and by international law, the Palestinian people have a right to resist the occupation, even if it means the use of violence. A revolt, uprising, and resistance is NOT war. Indeed, even if it WERE a war, Israel has not abided by international rules of engagement. EDITED: I meant to add, re: asking the wrong question. The “someone” in your question is a colonizer. By virtue of being a colonizer, they are possessed to colonize more, to build on the land they stole, even if what they build is a commune.

[@niningsetia4213]

I'm the organic strawberry 🍓😂 It's okay for that "iye..tears" Bau juga Ojeg..tapi..bau😂😂😂 Gak ah

[@mineown1861]

Unfortunately, the wall was a latter day Bar Lev line , both failed the unforeseen test . A false sense of security can be more dangerous than none

[@howwitty]

My understanding of the Bar Lev line is that it was a military installation. The wall was also staffed by members of the IDF. At 16:51 Dr. Dany Tirza stated that the wall was not meant to sustain a military attack. Therefore, the wall's purpose was to detain a stateless population indefinitely. Maybe it's time to admit that Zionism is wrong. It's too bad Israel is a failed apartheid state and it's too bad the IDF is committing an ethnic cleansing in 2023.

[@YallaMiami]

Are these people that dumb to believe their government will put 2 million people in a concentration camp and they won’t ever try to break free?

[@DavidRGD]

they couldn't rely on the wall, they were busy harassing Palestinians at the West Bank while Hamas invaded. there were calls from eyewitnesses near Gaza Strip asking themselves "Where is the army?" (oh and regarding source, i won't tell shit because they won't care anyway)

[@uniqtraveller2162]

Another great documentary

[@siliconslice]

Why does most Muslim country has it's own terrorist organisation, Pakistan(Teherike Taleban Pakistan), Yemen (Houthi), Lebanon(Hezbollah), Afgan(Taleban), Bangladesh(Mujahidin & Brotherhood of BD) and so on and on it goes ..... What purpose do they serve for the people or Govt. !?

[@randallcauley9484]

Why do so many Wyt Xian countries have a gun fetish, racism, and KKK or its equivalent? Why do so many Wyt Xian nations have a long history of economic usury (fake loans with high debt rates that pay out to their own MNCs and extract resources but don't invest in education, training, job programs in-country?) Not sure you've seen past the firewall they intended for you (and me) with the kind of media coverage and storyline they've been posting like a drum beat since the 90's Why do so many Wyt Xian nationalist states have militias and well-armed homesteaders buying body armor (NW Idaho, Texas Hill Country)? Good question. Look into it. I think you'll be pleased to find out Netanyahoo funded Hamas through another country on purpose (to quell their more democratic leadership opponents and minimize the front so they can purchase informants and plant black ops inside). Israel and US funded and supported ISIS/IS. Why in the world would we do that, then betray the Kurds, then abandon Aghanistan and let so many of the people loyal to US and democratization get burned, left dangling as the Taliban closed in? Because the "moralism" and moral equivalency of our own deep state doesn't care about, adhere to, or even foster the foreign policy goals or values it uses to cover it's crimes. They don't serve the American people. They serve arms manufacturers, certain select shareholders and financiers, and the war machine. They exist to exist, and dominate. Short answer.

[@SamanthaRichardson-v9l]

Thank you.

[@atuldeshpande8891]

Israel military never never took into account that the armed Hamas terrorists were thousands in number just across the fence and that this fence can simply because broken by basic explosives and basic Bulldozer. Israel's fence was created to fight a Hamas army,but not thousands of armed civilians breaking through on the ground using motorcycles. Also there was no ditch alongside the fence.A sufficient wide and deep ditch 10 feet would have at least prevented the four wheelers of Hamas from barging through the fence.Also there was no yearly mock drill to take Kibbutz residents to immediate safety in case of an attack by next door neighbours. Also Kibbutz residents were not given sufficient arms and ammunition and training to fight for at least 48 hours before the arrival of IDF.Lastly and most importantly it was totally wrong to let in thousands of Palestinians from Gaza daily into Israel to work on daily basis.This exposed the defence weaknesses of the Kibbutz by the Palestinian civilians coming in for work from Gaza into Israel on daily basis.Israel forgot that Palestinians from Gaza are not Christians or Hindus or Buddhists ,but Muslims who are totally radicalised.

[@jairuskteo]

Well done on the reporting

[@Thatguy-yf5ue]

Frontline, can you make a documentary about the southern US border fence?

[@MsBhappy]

Seems too political with an election coming up

[@michaeladkins6]

If they did they could mention Steve Banon and his scamming old people out of thier money to build the wall. The cult leaders are all scam artists.

[@TheWhiteRod]

Lol, they’d never do that. Too damning to one side of the aisle. PBS Frontline is fantastic but don’t forget PBS is essentially a sibling organization to NPR, which is a out-and-out Democrat propaganda organ. On the other hand, if you’re looking for programs about “January 6th,” PBS has predictably made about 20 of them 🤣

[@ruger8412]

​@@TheWhiteRodpbs has hands down done more for small communities than the GOP has destroyed & betrayed.

[@PaulH-k7y]

I THINK FRONTLINE IS THE VERY BEST DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM CURRENTLY ON AIR...

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

This is EXACTLY why we have a second amendment in the USA. Imagine if these people had guns of their own and fought back. Instead they were all murdered like sitting ducks. I am not sorry that the Palistinians are losing a war THEY started.

[@martyismay]

Do you mean they started it on Oct 7?

[@randallcauley9484]

it's amazing how many 2nd amendment folks fail to understand the actual policies at play, and even dismiss the targeted sniping of children, the kidnap and torture of health care workers, and ongoing propaganda so often given wholesale pass-through for known unreliable sources. We are overrun. No amount of guns has kept you from being a tool of propaganda, easily positioned and bent to the narrative. But most 2A folks in US somehow don't see how much their little homestead stand off prepper stuff is actually what Palestinians are doing. See if you can track it: Occupied. Apartheid (47+ laws that make families targets, children detainable in military prisons, and anything you've built demolishable). and Genocide (in the technical, classic, intentional sense).

[@PrecisionStrikeGamer]

What you should be advocating instead is more arms for the Palestinians...and zero arms deliveries for the Zionists. Period.

[@ilnichilistablog]

Excellent work thanks

[@mimikrya8794]

Interesting reportage. Make a sequel - how and why the attacked waited several hours for help!

[@aliginthahouse1]

because it served a bigger agenda to do in Gaza what it's doing now;)

[@brera2434]

The answer is easy. The bases were at minimum staffing due to the holiday. Its importance is like Christmas in Israel. Many of the soldiers lived upwards of the central region. It takes time to get to the Gaza envelope from there. Even with entire units reacting very quickly, putting 2 and 2 together, and self-organizing to get down there to help, it took time to get there, then to get organized on the ground to make sure you're not shooting each other...plus road blocks set up by terrorists, so you can't just run towards a kibbutz, way too risky... There are many very easy reasons that explain the delay, no need for conspiracy theories.

[@mimikrya8794]

@@brera2434 I agree, no need for conspiracy theories, just coherent hypotheses.

[@brera2434]

@@mimikrya8794 Does what I wrote sound coherent to you?

[@brera2434]

@@mimikrya8794 As the guy in the video said - they'll analyze it, and analysis is ongoing. But my guess that this will be the result. And yes, Hamas had us fooled. I remember the discussions very vividly, about how Hamas seemed to go down the path of deradicalization, like the PLO had in the eighties...and how the Islamic Jihad seemed to be the once causing trouble to Hamas just like Hamas had to the PLO until the mid-2000s...that actually being im charge seemed to have deradicalized them. I remember that so clearly BECAUSE of what happened just a few weeks later. That H*ezbollah was crazy was never a question...but H*amas had us fooled.

[@johnhancock3666]

Oct 7 remands me of the WW2 event when Poland attacked Germany, which gave Germany the justification they needed to invade Poland. lol

[@jefrycococ9968]

The attackers' motivation, rather than their methods, should be the focus of inquiry.

[@jcliu]

Um, Hamas’s motivation isn’t exactly a mystery. Nor the IDF’s. It’s two recently invented nations fighting over the same patch of land. Same thing happened in the Balkans, Alsace-Lorraine, Poland, Ireland, India/Pakistan, Lebanon and the American West. There’s nothing particularly interesting about the Israel/Palestine case, besides the ruthless skill with which both sides have convinced the world *their* zero-sum territorial conflict somehow has more world-historical and metaphysical importance than anyone else’s.

[@jefrycococ9968]

@@jcliu

[@Billfye123]

The Hebrews are invading colonial force of racial suprmacists

[@male3399]

The Nakba, the occupation, and the poverty camps in the diaspora always remain the greatest motivator for the Palestinians

[@clarencesammah5443]

Will PBS ever do a similar documentry on the Southern U.S border? While cornpop is still in office.?

[@takechanceslive]

PBS dropping heat today 🎉🎉🎉

[@jamesmoore4003]

One thing I was VERY surprised to learn not long after the attack is the lack of Israeli citizens being armed. As an American I just assumed that civilians were heavily armed over there….at least in those communities close to Gaza. But no…it’s fairly difficult for civilians to obtain firearms for their protection. Very surprised to learn that. I mean…if there was at least 1 AR-15 per household with plenty of ammo then there would have been a lot less bloodshed on the Israeli side.

[@jessisingh3448]

have a heart and just pray for the kids💔😭

[@heidiharris_]

Thoughts and prayers lmao

[@alexgunawan98]

if people can not live together in peace, they are not worth of your thought and care.

[@fs4836]

^ sounds like something Adolf Hitler would say

[@Somewhereintime7]

Some of those invaders didn't look Palestinian, look somewhat like Mujahideen guys that fought in Faluja ? Am I tripping ?

[@johnoneill192]

The pain those poor people must feel is unimaginable and my heart really goes out to them , but does inflicting total war on the people of Gaza really help?? No it doesn’t, there is only one solution to this cycle of violence that erupts every few years and that is a peace solution so no more Israeli or Palestinian families have to go through this horror. It pains me to see anyone die in a futile war that will never end until people on both sides start seeing the other side as human and start seriously looking for a peaceful resolution to this madness. From what I’m seeing both sides just want to eliminate the other side, I seen the exact same thing happen in Northern Ireland in the 70,s and 80,s and it was a horrible chapter in our history that no one with any humanity wants to go back to. Don’t get me wrong things in Northern Ireland are far from perfect and the hate is still there but we are not slaughtering each other anymore, I only am aware that as bad as the troubles in Northern Ireland were what’s happening in Israel and Gaza and the West Bank is far worse and needs a peaceful resolution

[@jimwerther]

​@charlotteschneider6080 If Gaza is an open air concentration camp, why don't the Gazans leave through the rear door to Egypt? Why won't any of the 55 Muslim countries let them in? Why have numerous countries - Jordan, Lebanon, and Kuwait come to mind instantly - thrown them out? Why did Israel not erect a fence until Gazans begam sending suicide bombers to blow up passenger buses?

[@saulcaspamiranda3654]

Stupid people believe that every human is equal and wars are none sense, that is the very same mentality that allowed this tragedy.

[@paulmea3166]

Hamas is their government and they support it. Unfortunately it has to end like WW2. There is no negotiating.

[@tagtag-connected5263]

@charlotteschneider6080concentration camps governed by Hamas. Ask Hamas why all aid are rockets, ammunition, tunnels,etc. can the people suffering in Gaza eat rockets and billets now? Don’t think so. If Hamas does oct 7 again they know already what to expect for response as Hamas sacrifices civilians. Hamas said it themselves all Palestinians are martyrs.

[@ifeanyiikpegbu6465]

Call a spade a spade. The problem is that hamas, a terrorist organization, was allowed to rule Gaza all these years. That shouldn't have been allowed. I guess Israel has learnt the lesson. Terrorists will never seek for peace.

[@kamalmehra1695]

What a documentry❤

[@rosezimmerman3821]

I told someone back home the evening of October 7th (I was in Israel visiting that day) that I was concerned and shocked that Israel's border had been breached. I didn't think that was possible. I lost a lot of faith in their security departments that day.

[@ARVINDSKI]

We cant depend on technology alone. Man power and technology should go hand in hand.

[@gotcha900]

There must be soldiers rooming around the borders and telescope and watch tower. Not depend on technology.

[@yehiagamal1182]

You can depend on peace. It’s easier and cheaper. I don’t know how people want to live safely on a stolen land.

[@kimhudson3517]

Heart breaking how cruel people can be...

[@rh81454]

Islam. Just look at what Europe is becoming. Acid attacks, honor killings, female gntl mutilation, brides (use your head). We must prevent the islamization of the west.

[@LemonHead-sq5ws]

You can only push people so far until they fight back…

[@afsalt8090]

The attack from Hamas was a huge blunder. You must know the strength of your enemy before attack. You should have estimated the strength of enemy (IDF). Israel has modern Army, Airforce, Navy. How can you win battle with ordinary weapons. What will you do when enemy comes back with his full strength. "Whole of Gaza wiped out "

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

I keep getting told that they're the ones that stole their houses and then they attacked him because they want their houses back is that true?

[@Loktoris]

That's what it sounds like. When the guy says they told him he would be safe there it's clear he was put there by Israel government.

[@oleggold]

​@Loktoris No. It's a figure of speech. It just means that it is close to the border. A border that's neen suffering for 20 years from rockets from Gaza. If they wouldbe there, then it would be the next town, and so on, until Tel Aviv, until Haifa, until Jerusalem, Eilat and Kiryat Shmona. You really are clueless. Hamas would kill 7 million Israeli if they had the chance.

[@oleggold]

And no. No one stole their anything. This Palestinian lie propaganda is BS. A total misconception. Even today most of Israel is not populated. In 1948 it was eve less populated. No one owned thr vast majoriof the land. It belonged to whoever was in control of the area. Birts, Ottomans, Romans, Jews etc. The Palestinian lie has been told too many times. People blindly believe it.

[@ThePancakeman96]

"if I don't steal your house, someone else was going to steal it"

[@anonymous.marshall]

Israel is a nation built on a genocide and an occupation

[@yilkalkassahun2454]

Thank you Frontline PBS for this investigative journalism. The world must know what just happened to Israelites on the day of November 7 2023. It is very very sad to see innocent people massacred (slaughtered) in cold blood.

[@mousegreen8462]

I tell you what is even sadder though, the horrific crimes of Israeàł which have been committed for many decades. Yes, it's true, and this isn't an argument for what-about-ism, but the difference here, is this ended in a few days and many of the deaths were friendly fire (up to a quarter). Gažâ is still being bombed and people dying there to this day, almost a year on. What we know almost for certain, is that people should look back on the former illegal settlements and current day 'Isràël', with it's oppressive and awful policies (only emboldened by this event) with the same embarrassment and distain we had for South African Apartheid in the last century. There's no justification for mass rape, child detention without charge, and an armed force of a nation acting against the court in mutiny (such as the illegal occupation of houses in WB currently ordered so by the country's court. Shame on anyone who is so against humanity they believe otherwise.

[@dj1NM3]

@@mousegreen8462 The Hamas government (along with their cronies Islamic Jihad) of Gaza Strip have been firing rockets blindly into Israel, kidnapping and murdering Israelis ever since they were handed control upon Israel's complete disengagement on September 30, 2005: in other words, Israelis have endured 18 long years of air-raid sirens and random deaths from terrorist rockets, only slightly blunted by the technological innovation of Iron Dome. How much murder and mayhem must Israel endure, before they go in and end the threat, hopefully once and for all time? It seems very much like the October 7th 2023 massacre of 1200 and the kidnapping of 240 was literally "the straw which broke the camel's back": which seems to have been a massive miscalculation by Hamas/Islamic Jihad and thoroughly backfired on them, as they are being killed in combat or surrender in droves, as the IDF sweeps through Gaza Strip.

[@michaelpospisil1951]

Of course everyone knows, Israel would never miss an opportunity to show themselves as victims... Instead of using this as an excuse to kill even more innocent people Israel should have done some soul searching and learn that it is your occupation and actions against Palestinians that is the greatest threat to your security. Israel will be most safe when there is peace and when Palestinian people feel safe and free...if that were the case then Palestinians would not support Hamas they would condemn and fight any true terrorism because it would threaten the peace... But now Israel is no different from Hamas...they create terror together...

[@ShaneShaneshiny]

​@@mousegreen8462Stop spreading fake news!!!

[@johnsteiner3417]

Israel made the same mistake in real life that RTS gamers know not to do; depend too heavily on static unmanned defense.

[@philldavies7940]

Yes, the military can learn a lot from the advice of RTS gamers. if Rommel had been a gamer he would have driven the allies back on 6th June. Sigh.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@philldavies7940 The reason Rommel didn't have more impact is because he was already under suspicion by the regime.

[@Mr.unkoun]

You guys should do a how it started vs how its going

[@christianlucas7050]

😂

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

Ok, well, in 1946 the newly formed United Nations said "we need to put the Jews somewhere that is outside Europe so we don't have to deal with them" because just like today, only developed European nations really seem to matter to the UN. Britain said "well, we control the land that the Romans forcibly removed them from and it's pretty shit land that we really don't want..." The UN all thought about it and said "That works for us, better than giving them someplace that matters." So Jews in Europe were encouraged to immigrate to the newly formed state of Israel, and the people who lived there were encouraged to move out. The Palestinians, naturally, weren't real thrilled with that, so they got together with the neighboring Arab countries and decided that it would be totally cool if they finished what Hitler started, as soon as those pesky Brits were out of the region. In 1948, Britain saw their chance and told everyone Elizabeth wasn't into riding dune buggies through deserts and they left. As soon as they were sure the British weren't playing some British humor joke on them all the neighboring countries attacked Israel, resulting in around 700k Palestinians realizing that staying in a war zone was pretty stupid, so they hauled ass out of the area. The Arabs, uniformly, performed less than spectacularly and Israel occupied a lot of the land that the Palestinians fled from and then made it pretty clear that the people who didn't flee might not be so welcome because...well, their neighbors did start a war of extermination that failed and just like Germany was occupied when they lost...so was a lot of Palestine. Then the Palestinian refugees said "whoa whoa whoa, we should be allowed to return home, or at least get paid for our houses." Israelis said "Sure, you can return home if you "agree to remain at peace with your neighbors" and the Palestinians said "whoa whoa whoa, that's asking way to much." There you have it, the short version of how it all started.

[@zainkazi8189]

@@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5pxIs Netanyahu your history teacher?

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

@@zainkazi8189 I would say that's better than no history teacher which seems to be the problem the people who support Hamas have.

[@mollify72]

@@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px Somebody's history book seems to be missing the pages where the Irgun and Haganah militia were ordered to shoot on sight any Palestinian that attempted to return to their villages. And the chapters on the Deir Yassin massacre (and hundreds more like it).

[@shelbychurch1223]

I can't help but think after watching multiple videos on Palestine that you can push people so far and cage them for so long before they snap. While what Hamas did was horrific, what Israel has done for years is just if not worse.

[@cliomuse1206]

A typical excuse. The Palestinians were offered numerous peace deals - land, half of Jerusalem, investments, etc. The ONLY thing the international community asked was to stop attacking Israel and recognize the state. They refused both of these conditions and chose war. Whoever wanted peace with Israel - Egypt, Jordan, now the UAE and Saudi Arabia - got peace. Whoever chose war - got war. It’s time they learn to live with the consequences of their choices. I’m sick and tired of people legitimizing barbarism, just because the barbarians claim oppression and victim hood. Sick of that narrative. They will either learn to live in peace with the rest of the world (not just the Jews), or they will go to Allah. I’ve reached a point where I’m comfortable with either option.

[@jackofalltrades3378]

@@cliomuse1206 Maybe the peace deals weren't sufficient for them? You act as if someone should just take a deal without considering if the terms are sustainable for them...... you must not run a business....

[@cliomuse1206]

@@jackofalltrades3378 in the real world, you compromise. Most nation states wouldn’t exist today, if people didn’t compromise. Also, they have demonstrated that they don’t want a state - they want a perpetual war. If they wanted to create a Palestinian state, they would’ve done it by now. Business has nothing to do with this topic. I’ve been to the West Bank, and I walked in there with a heart full of sympathy for them. Walked out with a very different perspective, after everything I saw and heard from the locals. I no longer see them as victims.

[@ifeanyiikpegbu6465]

​@@jackofalltrades3378If it's not sufficient for them, then they should resort to terror and slaughtering civilians? What did they use all the aid money for?

[@fredfurball]

It would be good to know whether Frontline pixelated the images of the fighters crossing the border and if so, why?

[@Collin-p9m]

It's almost as if Israel allowed this to happen so ot had an excuse to flatten Gaza and destroy Hamas. It was only a matter of time before Israel was gonna invade anyways, Hamas has been firing rockets at Israeli civilians for years.

[@cbjgdicad1]

That kind of damage is done by missiles and tank shells not RPG

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

You have any experience outside Call of Duty?

[@cbjgdicad1]

@@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px Israeli Apache pilots have confirmed it as have people from the kibbutzim.The Hannibal Directive was implemented.

[@Dynamatrix2000]

Idf didn't attack their own people.

[@cbjgdicad1]

@@Dynamatrix2000 There is plenty of video footage to show they did.'Tank fires on Is aeli civillian home in kibb tz Be'eri' on EI, for just one example.

[@philldavies7940]

Are you an expert on tanks shells, RPG , explosives then? what game did you get that experience from ? did you respawn a 10,000 times to get that experience? Maybe you are surprised that real soldiers don't re-spawn when they are shot up, they don't hit esc, pick themselves up and carry on fighting.

[@chrishay8385]

A hard thing to watch ,so so very sad to see mankind doing this to each other

[@yargundev9772]

The technology of the fence was good, but no effort was made to protect against a major multi facetted attack on it.

[@Bobbynevovic]

The fence was useless, adding the fact that, unfortunately, there was not enough (so little) man power in the most dangerous border in the world, is even more mind blowing. 💔

[@whitequetzal3574]

It was a luxury of modern times that you could expect raiders on villages and cities to not come after a settlement with no wall. The national wall matters, but every settlement in the world now needs at least a palisade if not a construction in concentric walls like a medieval castle. It was not an accident that the building of castles was necessary, the only thing that offered protection against viking raids was a stone wall.

[@TheBigBangkokTheory]

Barbourous attack, but no one did anything last year when Azerbijan staged a siege on 120000 Armenians ,and after 9 months forced them out,ethnic cleaning for sure. And to top it all israel was supplying drones to Azerbijan and helping them.

[@hazemarafah7045]

just go to Gaza , you will see a Horrible view

[@slipcosp]

"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people." - Nelson Mandela

[@jefflovespigs]

25:07 “ it’s hard to believe there was life here” I would say it’s hard to believe there isn’t life here. 😢

[@clorets4509]

you can believe now

[@MsBhappy]

Empty abandoned places have an inhospitable feeling

[@theresacoffeen8149]

Thankyou Frontline for this Doumentry. The world needs to view this. The Truth. It is so devastating when humanity is forced to live with so much terror and Anger. Why what is so powerfull to destroy a whole city, country and innocent people live with so much terror. I can't even imagine. It is so disturbing. God be with you all. My prayers.

[@ThisisMindoMint]

So Israel stole this land from them? I know nothing about it. But if they stole it then why are they shocked? They need to come to an agreement. FAST

[@scottohara9001]

The land was a desert wasteland before JFC research it

[@bjohnston3659]

I admit I'm quite paranoid but I think, in this day and age, every day we are NOT attacked just means it's MORE likely we'll be attacked tomorrow. It;s particularly concerning that so many people "on our side" so much of their time making us weaker

[@den264]

Whenever I hear people say that Israel is our only friend in the middle east, I have to remind myself that before Israel, we never had enemies in the middle east.

[@bjohnston3659]

@@den264 when I was at school, we had a guy in the gang who could be counted on to get roaring drunk and be the life of the party EXCEPT once in a while he would start a fight where there didn't need to be one. Then everyone had to choose. Like that you mean?

[@peepindis]

I worry about this too. We can make offers to other countries.

[@jameshunter2025]

I feel israel Is only our friend as long as it's a benefit to them,and when they wanna be friends.This is not the definition of a friend.Its easier to start fights when your buddy behind you can take on all comers.

[@jimwerther]

​@@den264 That's a nonsense take. What did the takeover of Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, and the taking of 56 American hostages, have to do with Israel? Absolutely nothing. The spread of radical Islam is the issue. Why did we get attacked on 9.11.01? Because Osama bin Laden was offended that we had troops in Saudi Arabia ever since Saddam Hussein threatened them in 1990, since Saudi Arabia is home to Mecca and Medina. Again, nothing to do with Israel. Israel gives us very valuable intelligence. They are strong partners. Blaming Israel is the work of two groups: Anti-Semites, and ignorant leftists.

[@OriFrish]

As a Religious, Zionist, Israeli Jew, I can assure you all that the failure was a lot bigger. This is a great video, showing how deep the failure was technically, the fence, the maintenance, etc. The failure was within the Israeli Jewish hearts, the un-ending elections that raised for the first time in the last 30 years a new right-wing government. The depression of the left-wing and their enormous attempts to overthrow this government although they were elected democratically, not to mention their 'deep-state' holding that collapses. The entire army was "asleep", and the interrogation for these reasons are still ongoing, we believe high-ranking left-wing commanders abandoned their responsibilties, morally and technically. Young recruited army women that called for aid, were abandoned to their horrific fate with Hamas. The irony is so strong, that most of the people that had been massacred were mostly left-wing members who were trying to emphatize with the Palestinians. I was staying at my wife's family home in southern Asqhelon and thank God we were not killed during that attack as we were hiding in the shelter. I lost a relative that went to the Nova Festival, Avia. We will never see her again. This is something that never happened, but we all feared it might. This is a war that has a resemblence to the 'Yom Kippur' war, another war that occurred 'unexpectedly' in a Jewish holiday. This was a 'Godly' act, that Hamas leveraged. and they leveraged it for the last time. Gaza will never be a terror hive again.

[@jacklanham7311]

This violence toward humanity needs to stop. I watch this months later and watch these leaders on bothsides sacricing their civilians. It is time for the world leaders to cherish humanity.

[@deaddudegaming]

Not gone happen in fact its only going to get worse. Right now Israel wasn't to divide Gaza up in to different parts and build walks and guard towers along those walls. There the Palestine will be locked in whatever section their in. Nothing will be allowed to get out and everything going in will be decided by Israel. You can go find maps and plans for this all online. In short Israel is going to turn Gaza in to a concentration camp. I am willing to bet over time Palestine in West Bank will be rounded up an moved there. Fact is things are going to get very very worse for Palestine. The world has no empathy or remorse for the Palestine people. They see them as animals needing to be wiped out. That what a lot of Pro-Israeli see Palestine. They have dehumanized them to such a degree they can't see they have become no better then the Nazi.

[@adaml5166]

Heartbreaking

[@adam.259]

The exploded bodies of Palestinian kids

[@LaurentGardy-t8z]

Some will say hearthwarming... NO LOVE IN THIS REGION

[@1Surt]

Those kids are future terrorists. They are brainwashed from birth to hate Israel & non-Muslims. Do not confuse how they treat their kids with how Western Civilization views children.

[@BZandpower]

HOW were those structures so destroyed by machine guns? trees knocked down?!

[@Harris.S]

It's been done by the IDF ,

[@BZandpower]

@@Harris.S did they accidentally killll hostages though?

[@subcitizen2012]

IDF response, my guess.

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

Tanks and helicopters. Just like the thousands of cars in the festival parking lot that were incinerated. They went scorched earth on their own in a panic. Half those lost were probably friendlyF.

[@TylerShacklefordDurden]

​@@BZandpowerstatements have been made by survivors, and pilots, confirming they absolutely did.

[@Munibahmad241]

How about for a change show whats happening to the people of Palestine for decades? The Children and the Elderly etc now they got a glimpse of what they dish out and it doesn’t feel great does it… don’t muck about so you don’t have to worry about upset neighbours, simple

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Good report, engrossing, amongst the shortest 26 minutes ever viewed. Satisfied to have eventually come across a realistic video along with that of another channel.

[@jungleharry]

Here for the comments. Please let people speak their minds whether for or against 🙏

[@Issac-eg5ek]

I guess but 90% of the people here are either slow or a bot--->- liar liar liar, it's jew progranda....etc etc etc

[@robertsharp3238]

The motto of the story is don’t replace soldiers with robots.

[@ismaeleltay]

How about the story being about not committing genocide, taking people's lands and engaging in ethnic cleansing.

[@slickstrings]

@@ismaeleltay tell me exactly how its genocide when the population of gaza has been expanding every year. Is this the first genocide in history where a system of extermination is not only un-observable, unmeasurable but cannot keep up with the birth rate of the people its supposedly being committed against? What has Israel been doing? where are the bodies? where are the Israeli troops committing this so called genocide? Tell me exactly how they are committing this. Prove it now or keep your idiotic mouth shut.

[@RobertSeemann]

Every nation took something from someone. Whomever conquers the land, owns the land. Israel isn't going anywhere and this violent Hamas terrorist attack will achieve nothing but more harm on the Palestinian people.

[@eden5260]

​@@ismaeleltayhow about stop being a terrorist. Perhaps no

[@ismaeleltay]

@@eden5260 Sincere debate and discussion are fine. Your remark here is a poor reflection on your character not mine.

[@richarddefortune1329]

Keep up the good work 👏

[@digiiiib]

I have 0 sympathy for these settlers if I’m honest

[@zamyoutube]

I wonder if PBS thought to interview anyone from any other perspective

[@007kingifrit]

you mean interview the rapists....?

[@helloneighbor11]

I think they asked, but the rapists didn't want to be interviewed

[@Kenmarshallintereststx]

This breaks my heart and wish so badly they would have picked my small town here in Texas. Enough said. God bless yall 🙏

[@Davidh741]

keyboard warrior don't press people for over 70 years what'd did Israel expect ?

[@brandonbrown4819]

@@Davidh741 And now the Israeli payback will be a military government across Gaza for no doubt a very long time to come

[@sparklingnight7513]

ولا تحسبن الله غافلا عما يعمل الظالمون إنما يؤخرهم ليوم تشخص فيه الأبصار

[@Dim60-o3p]

Job well done, Frontline. IDF underestimated the enemy. And how can you fight an enemy you don't know? Someone in Israel should be sent to jail for this inexcusable negligence bordering on treason.

[@ddaman5764]

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t a kibbutz another term for settlement?

[@rebekahwiseman3377]

Kibbutz means "grouping" or "gathering" in Hebrew.

[@Rony_357]

For Muslim and antisemite all of Israel state is a settlement.

[@ismailyavuz]

And they are the occupiers of Palestinian lands by guns and killing disobeying people.

[@zachhoward9099]

You are correct

[@ismailyavuz]

@@ddaman5764 so all are occupiers

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

I can't imagine how humiliating it must be for the citizens of Gaza to look at a heavily armed wall built to prevent them from ever walking on the land that their ancestors lived in for centuries

[@laurashore5181]

Try looking at Egypts border wall ....they do not want Gazans either

[@downtoearth5443]

The same ancestors who refused a two state solution and waged a war to destroy the other side - and lost. Not just the war but also their land. Yea.....very humiliating but richly deserved

[@bryancouture750]

Personally i was pretty surprised Hamas was able to do this. I wonder if Isreal let it happen so they could justify taking care of the problem once and for all.

[@djamburere]

Bingo!

[@mailsandymurali]

Really? The extensive web tunnel runs across the Gaza was created by whom?

[@bryancouture750]

@@mailsandymurali Hamas. Digging under your own land is not that impressive to me. You weren't surprised by how effective the attack was at all? Personally, with how effective MOSAD is, I did not think Israel could be hit like this.

[@mailsandymurali]

@@bryancouture750 so the Israelis planned the attack on themselves and handed over the hostages to the Hamas. Then the Hamas and Palestinians claimed the victory and celebrated the victory of the attack on Israel on October 7th....I get it. But spending all the billions of money for creating these tunnels and building it underneath all the schools and hospitals and spending all th energy and resources for accumulation of rockets to launch into Tel-Aviv instead of running a nation, that everyone can ignore. The problem with social media is that, it is a double edged sword. You can propagate all you want but everything is available for everyone to see, IF they want to see and then use their brain to analyse all the narratives. Btw the Palestinians are not very good at hiding their intentions and proclaiming what exactly they think and what they want. So yes you can keep on blaming the Israelis forever and the peace will be restored.

[@martyismay]

Israeli knew what was coming. But it would've been in their interest to allow it to happen

[@niningsetia4213]

It's reading her mind bout me DNT count on me for her luck I DNT help NEVER

[@sonyjoseph5426]

How many Israeli civilians did the IDF killed of the 1200

[@Caffeinegoesinface]

The discourse needs to be the discussion of why there needs to be an iron wall in the first place. I find it disturbing the large number of people thinking that the solutions here is to double down on military force, increasing the iron-fisted control, and heavier military response. This is the path to escalation towards the loss of more human life and hate on both sides. Access to education, liberty, sovereignty, and collaboration have historically shown to be the strongest weapon to combat the hatred between two groups. Terrorism has escalated in the settlements towards Palestinians since these horrendous attacks and the same gruesome scenes are happening in the towns below the settlements. There needs to be a solution, and I firmly believe that a solution that is best for humanity can not be a purely militaristic or dictatorial one. Nor one where both groups dehumanize the other.

[@Emily-bm9xj]

Perhaps if people weren't kept in a chicken cage without basic resources for survival, without human rights and living under such abhorrent conditions would such technology be required for their high-intensity repression. Oct 7 was horrific, precisely because the anger and force driving it was that of a modern slave revolt, of people deeply exploited and repressed under advanced and organized socio-technical means, those exceeding that of the Nazis. I'm disappointed by the lack of context in this documentary, which goes straight into the Gaza barrier in a way that normalizes the forced displacement and expropriation of land of a designated ethnicity, their forced migration into the world's largest internment camp and the systematic deprivation of political rights, medical supplies, food, basic goods and international access for almost two decades as the world just looked on (or in the exceptional case that if the international community tried to bring help and bring aid, they were slaughtered). This documentary misses a lot of things, we’ll see if publicly funded media in the US is allowed to do real investigative journalism into Israel, I’m not counting my chickens. The New York Times has published an investigation that Israel knew of the attack more than a year in advance. Egypt had given warnings as well as Israeli women’s border watching patrols, who were hushed or ignored when they brought it up in the days leading up to October 7. It is clear that the deployment of Israeli forces to the West Bank on that day was not just pure coincidence, though this documentary doesn’t go into any of this. With the kibbutz featured and the people killed, there are so many questions that are overlooked here, including testimonies from many that they were attacked by Israeli forces, possibly acting on the Hannibal Directive. Sadly it is from this kibbutz that two of the three Israeli men taken hostage and waving white flags were shot by Israeli forces inside of Gaza. Released hostages have expressed the sentiment that they were treated like pawns and sacrificial lambs for the Israeli state. This doc only touches the surface of many questions that still need to be answered, meanwhile the US keeps bankrolling the genocide in Gaza and Israeli military and media will keep up its DARVO technique and says it will continue on unabated even if convicted in the ICJ.

[@lovinglife419]

The fact that Frontline calls this a ‘war’ says enough. Truly shameful.

[@acvelon]

I recall the time during Trump's era when the stock of a company involved in building Israel's wall rose. The market speculated they might secure a contract or benefit for Trump's proposed border wall, which he claimed Mexico would pay for. It appears that walls are not entirely effective against highly determined adversaries. The cartels south of the border, for example, are as determined as hamas, showcasing the limitations of physical barriers in such situations.

[@felixf4378]

Please don’t insult us like that. We are just trying to sell dope to our biggest customers not go on a killing rampage.

[@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px]

The wall is to deter unarmed civilians, not freakin' armies with explosives.

[@acvelon]

@@NobodyNeedstoknow-bq5px How familiar are you with Mexican drug cartels? Their imposed death toll is significant (over 0.5m since 2006) making Hamas seem amateur by comparison.