Hard Lessons from Israel's High-Tech Border Failure (opens in new tab)

On the one hand, underground comms conduits are difficult to target with rockets or even laser guided bombs. This is one reason why special forces on the ground were tasked with popping access hatches along iraqi highways during Desert Storm.

On the other, Israel is an acknowledged world leader in electronic warfare and jamming etc, so they have a very deep understanding of the technical vulnerabilities of wireless comms.

The border fence project did a lot of digging up of the ground so it surprises me if everything wasn't wired together with a mesh and lots of redundancy. And also that cutting the wire would itself trigger alerts and things.

So the part of the story where Hamas blinded everything by targeting cell towers doesn't seem likely. I wouldn't imagine Israel to be vulnerable like that. The bigger picture where Israel was caught off guard resource-wise and response-wise is very plausible though.