Failure at the Fence (full documentary) | FRONTLINE +
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- A visual investigation in collaboration with @WashingtonPost provides a detailed examination of how Hamas was able to breach Israel’s vaunted security barrier on Oct. 7, 2023, and carry out its attack.
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This special collaboration stems from a reconstruction by The Post, with additional on-the-ground reporting and riveting interviews that present a remarkable picture of how, as The Post reporters show, Hamas was planning the attack in plain sight, and Israel was blind to its own vulnerabilities.
“Failure at the Fence” is a FRONTLINE Production with Schonder Productions in association with The Washington Post. Written, produced and directed by Gabrielle Schonder. The correspondent is Jon Swaine. Reported by Jon Swaine and Joyce Sohyun Lee. The senior producer is Frank Koughan. The executive editor of The Washington Post is Sally Buzbee. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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"A line is only as strong as it's weakest link." An old military statement.
Oct. 7 proved that technology for guarding borders can never be a replacement for personnel on the ground.
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.
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.
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
@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
@@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?
I know that MANY Canadians ARE BLOCKED from seeing truth#!
Explain
Try using a VPN?
@@alexcarter8807 But they shouldn't need to
No they are not. I'm a Canadian watching this bss
We’re blocked from reposting it on social media which is insane. We can still see news from the sources.
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!
Frontline is totally biased
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
lol Balanced my ass.. they reporting only the Israeli side of things.
@@alichahin well look at the last names of the donor Foundations and their frontline producers. Its commonplace in our media, politics and donor class
@@alichahin yup! But this episode is also telling you that Israel f-up and why. So stop thinking one sided and open your minds
Anything can be overtaken or torn down or gotten through. It's easier to destroy than build.
Especially when people feel like they have nothing to lose.
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.
Free Palestine!!!
@@MrGMansour1Facts 💯💯💯
In science it's called entropy...law of chaos
Hamas are just monsters. No words.
WOW that’s IDF soldier was extremely thoughtful and foresaw the responsibility they have
This was sobering to watch. Israel certainly underestimated Hamas' resourcefulness and placed too much hope on military superiority and technology. Was good to hear from the Israeli residents of affected communities.
I lived in Nachal Oz for 4 years. It was obvious to me the fence was more theater than an effective barrier. A single regiment of good infantry at 4 or 5 bases on the border would have stopped the attack in one hour. The IDF has some of the best infantry in the world. None of the front line bases were ever properly maned, built for defense or guarded. One has to go all the way back to the French army of 1940 to equal the incompetence shown by the IDF on October 7th. No effective forces at the border and a 18 hour response time in a tiny country means lack of intellect and realistic planning at the top. The IDF should be able to put an armored division anywhere in the country in an hour an a half. You only need two divisions on alert to do that. That seem like a minimum when you have hostile armies on 3 borders.
Israeli infantry is actually very weak, as has been observed. Their tech is strong but the people are very weak.
@@oshak96Their military accomplishments, including individual acts of extreme bravery, prove you wrong.
It’s almost like they let it happen …
They wanted carte blanche to wipe Gaza off the map. They've openly stated that Hamas is an asset to the Israeli occupation plan.
@@oshak96 especially weak considering the amount of female troops
Nice to see PBS posting stories as they happen again
This ain't your mom's PBS
@@benjaminringrose536if it’s not her PBS, then whose PBS is it?
Pbs took vice spot 😭😭
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?!
@jamesm3471 meaning that it's not just Frugal Gourmet and Woodwright Shop anymore.
Frontline is always on point. I can only say....all Israeli citizens should be ready to fight at any time......young, old, men and women. This will be your best means of defense.
No they’re not always on point. In fact, a lot of times they tell lies and are amazingly biased.
Well done on the reporting
FRONTLINE creates such important and timely documentaries. Thank you.
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 🧱🧱🧱
It’s more like bad timely bullshit 🤣🤣
@@osamafly yet, here you are.
Yeah to read between the lines @@MarcSherwood
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 ..
News outlets don't just tell the story like they should.. They push their views. Thanks for just telling it how it is and letting people make an educated opinion.
@@mentesinquietas9712 LOL you're not wrong, but that wasn't the point of the comment.
I agree. Most of them would have been focusing on whats happened in gaza. Sorry but if you don't want to get annihilated , don't break into people's communities and slaughter innocent people !!!!!
@@Johnny-pj5cnIsrael and it's diaspora advocated so strongly for homogeneity, walls and strong borders for israel. That's why I find it especially ironic that those who advocated so strongly for open borders, multiculturalism, & diversity for Western Nations are now not only being attacked in israel but are also being so fervently protested against by the middle easterners and others who they actively invited into Western nations.
@@TheOpenSociety777I would be willing to bet everything I have that if the Palestinians would not have people who openly say Israel should be destroyed and stopped attacking Israelis, it would be quite more peaceful there. But people will not be honest just like it is here in America. There is the same people here commiting most of the crime and certainly most of the murders and everyone knows it, but no one will be honest about this.
@@TheOpenSociety777😂 Gun control is even worse. Listening to them try to act like taking guns away in back woods Idaho will somehow protect school kids nationwide is laughable. Yet they refuse to have an armed guard at school. All the while realizing drugs have been illegal forever yet there are more drugs on the street now, with more drug related deaths at this time, more so than any other time in history.
Its completely backwards and crazy to me.
I see, obviously, the government wants to be able to kill us more efficiently. Thats the only way it makes sense.
OR, its all BS and the gun lobby is paying politicians to talk about gun control so they can sell more guns. Like reverse psychology.
Its definitely 1 or the other. Nobody is that stupid.
PBS should do a documentary on the attackers, what made them attack the towns. What was their motivation.
72 virgins
Western Media isn’t interested in that
@@zuleimahernandez8037 Right now it does not matter at all, why these creatures did what they did. Nobody was asking about the motivation of the Nazis during WW2. There's plenty of time for these questions AFTER Hamas is gone.
@@JoCaKeTV Not all of them are dead afaik. IDF did take quite a few prisoners.
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.
Es ist immer wichtig, die Ursachen zu benennen. Danke für die neutrale Sicht.
Neutral? 😂
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.
When the world forces you into that situation… yes that is what happens
I totally agree. Putting 2 million people in a prison and throwing away the key.. What did Israel expect?
@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.
@@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?
@@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.
You should also show what is going on on the other site of the fence
I don't think any MSM is allowed to go there by themselfs, my country Denmark aren't allowed to send journalist's in by the IDF.
@@AahFukItthey can try through Egypt but they are not going to let them.
CNN have been there last week
@@eden5260 everything have go be checked by the Israeli goverment. They don't wan't news getting out from inside Gaza.40 weeks of daily demonstrations against Netanyahu's goverment ended with Oct 7th! There is no long term plan after this is over, Israel currently have the most " far right goverment ever. After this there will be elections and " bibi" needs to go and probably face charges he has been able to " dodge" in parlament. I need more coverage on how settler's are working in Gaza and the moment and the current action in the west bank. People are being killed there also. I checked the channel btselem ( israeli channel)
Nobody cares.
Irrelevant
"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people." - Nelson Mandela
This breaks my heart and wish so badly they would have picked my small town here in Texas. Enough said. God bless yall 🙏
Frontline dous amazing work, i listened to them since childhood
They are biased disinformation
They also make propaganda
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.
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
@@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.
They didn’t do anything because…THEY WERE A PART OF THE ATTACK!!
Excellent work thanks
It would be good to know whether Frontline pixelated the images of the fighters crossing the border and if so, why?
That's why no one can made a realistic and unfiltered detailed documentary like Frontline. World class.
As always
Even when they are on the ground, the people still think it is propaganda...
Probably because it's not government funded.
Bullshit. Total biased reporting. Whenever any outlet says "Hamas fighters" instead of terrorists you know they are anti Israel. There was NOT A SINGLE mention of the appalling atrocities committed by Hamas.. it was watered down to "killed" and "kidnapped". No mention of rapes, buthering children, burning people alive. Then they have the audacity to put most of the blame on the IDF for not having a good enough fence defence.
On the contrary, FRONTLINE'S bit on the Persian Gulf War is loaded with distortions, not the least of which is their conclusion that the US won the conflict. We lost badly, thus necessitating the need for another war on Iraq.
My heart goes out to all the victims and their families😢 who suffered on the 7th . My heart also goes out to all the innocent families in GAZA as well..
I don’t feel sorry for racist occupying colonizing ethno supremacists.
No you don't nobody buys your fake sympathy
@@ahrlj24I feel sorry for how ignorant you are and how you choose to spread hate in a world that needs empathy and love for ALL people
@mentesinquietas9712 He's an evil man!
@mentesinquietas9712Can 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 🧱🧱🧱
A hard thing to watch ,so so very sad to see mankind doing this to each other
One has to ask the the old question "cui bono?", "who profits?" and the answer is: Netanyahu profits. For months there were protests about his judicial reform. Since October 7th , there is no protests in the streets. Since October 7th, Netanyahu is creating facts. How could Netanyahu and his junta not know about the attacks? They turned a blind eye.
Can “rak lo bibi” wait till the end of the war ?
@@igorostrovsky5492 Hitl*er did not live up to the end of his war, will Netanyahu?
They broke 2 cardinal rules: 1, they got complacent, 2 they underestimated the enemy. Someone asked me which side are you on. They seem kinda disappointed when I said 'peace. I'm on the side of peace'.
Did they underestimate? Do you think they welcomed the attack as an excuse to carpet bomb gaza?
Oh they underestimated alright...Whilst the mighty IDF were either fast asleep in their barracks or on festive holiday leave, a few determined men with construction machines, Toyota pickups & mopeds successfully breached the walls & ran riot...
that's a nice thought. Do you believe in unicorns and rainbows too?
Peace can never be a side, it takes both sides ongoing commitment. Peace can never come with Hamas leading Gaza. It also can not come with Netanyahu in power. Thankfully Israel is a democracy whereas Hamas imprisons peace activists for even talking to Israelis (2020 news).
Spot on
So chilling and tragic 😔😔😔😢
It’s a good thing those IDF Apache helicopter pilot interviews were published.
Anyone find it odd when you know the Palestinian people were there first to see the little area they have, and all the area the Jews have ?
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!
Colonialist are afraid 😅
@@hadihasan1903so afraid that Gaza is now a pile of rocks. And you’re happy?
Acting up for the cameras
@MrTripcore that's some pretty good acting if he can regulate his heartbeat for the cameras. Just saying.
And your r@pist friends are now dead, Hasan.
Neither can i imagine someone kicking me out of my own home. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Jews have been kicked out of their homes in many countries including Muslim countries but they don't go around with hatred in their hearts. They just move forward and try to build and raise their families
Don't be coy or obscure. Who is it that you imagine that this happened to?
Israel is not occupying anything.
Israel was never and has never been indigenous Arab land. Look at a map of Arabia; Israel is not there.
The term "Palestinian" is false, recently made up for political purposes.
The PLO invented the term "Palestinian" in the 1960s. It is utterly bogus.
Walid Shoebat, a former Muslim terrorist who at that time lived in the area that became known as the "West Bank," (another invented term) said "how can I go to bed as a Jordanian one day, and wake up the next day as a Palestinian?"
Then-PLO Executive Committee member Zahir Muhsein, in a 1977 interview, said: "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality there is no difference between Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for our political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since the Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people,’ to oppose Zionism.”
There are many, many more quotes like that. 60 years ago, there was no term "Palestinian" to refer to Arabs living in Israel.
Jews have been living in Israel for thousands of years continuously.
When the British mandate was rolling to a close early in the 20th century, they sought to give land to both Jews and Arabs. The Jews accepted every offer. The Arabs turned down every one.
The day that Israel began on its own rather small part of the British mandate area, and only on the part given to Israel, they were attacked by six Arabs countries who swore to push them into the sea. That failed. Five Arab countries tried again in 1967. That failed spectacularly. Then an Egyptian-led coalition of five countries in 1973 that initially succeeded, but ultimately failed.
Every attempt at handing an Arab state to the so-called "Palestinians" has been turned down by the "Palestinians". That includes several before 1948, again in 1948, and again in 1998, and 2000, and 2008. Every time the "Palestinians" say no, demanding every inch of Israel, and the end of the Jews - at a minimum those living in Israel, although some call for the death of every Jew worldwide.
Israel offered Gaza to Egypt many times in the past. Egypt refuses to take it.
Israel left Gaza completely in 2005, and pushed to help establish it at as a peaceful home for the Gazans, aid included. Instead Hamas took over, and turned it into a terrorist nest, attacking civilians mostly in Israel, but also in Egypt. That is when both Egypt and Israel erected a separation for the protection of their own respective civilians.
Note that Egypt and Jordan were among the countries that had previously declared war against and attacked Israel. Israel has always offered peace to any Arab or Muslim country that wanted it. Egypt accepted in 1978/1979, and Israel gave back the entire Sinai desert, captured from Egypt five years earlier. Israel and Egypt currently have a very good working relationship.
Jordan accepted a peace deal in 1994. Since then they have a cold peace with Israel, but peace it still is.
Note that Israel made peace three years ago with Bahrain, Oman, and the UAE, and was coming very close to making peace with Saudi Arabia, a country which had attacked Israel many times (1948, 1967, and 1973). It was this outbreak of peace with the Sunni world (85% of Muslims) that caused Iran-backed Hamas (all of whom are Shia) to attack Israel.
Also note that the "Palestinians" have been in and out of many Muslim countries over the years, and have fomented upheaval and war in all of them, leading to their expulsion. They nearly overthrew Jordan, so Jordan killed 2,000 and expelled 30,000 "Palestinians". Beirut was once called the "Paris of the Middle East", until 1975 that is, when the "Palestinians" turned it into a civil-war torn hellhole.
Kuwait recently kicked out over 100,000 "Palestinians".
The Syrian civil war has been about Assad (truly an evil man) trying to get rid of his "Palestinian" problem. Asaad has killed hindreds of thousands of them; the world pays no attention.
I hope you find this useful.
@gandydancer9710 I have this nightmare sometimes. 7 billion people are suddenly turning up in Africa, the motherland. But then ouf!!!
@@kama4581 No, the population explosion in Africa is not a case of people "suddenly turning up" anywhere.
Also, Europe letting them in is a self-inflicted wound.
Anyway, I see you've chosen to ignore my request that you clarify your unfocussed claim. So you still need to do that. Or be derided.
I appreciate this documentary very much. Great work!
This will never happen in Israel again!Just makes them stronger!
if people can not live together in peace, they are not worth of your thought and care.
Moral of the story don’t cheat your neighbours and get along with them . Or life will be hell . No matter what
Exactly
if you cage them in they will eventually uncage themselves
What an insane response! The moral of the story is don't imagine you can tolerate terrorists on your borders, especially Islamic terrorists who are supported across the Muslim world.
They're not crying "In the interest of a safe two-state solution" as they rush into "occupied territory - they cry "Allahu Akhbar!" Because this is Islam against the world, as it has been since the 7th century.
@@sleddy01 They are "caged" because they have been doing terr0r attacks for the past 70 years
@@sleddy01 They were not caged in, it was a legitimate border!
The fact that we get free videos on TH-cam by FRONTLINE is truly a gift; keeping the education and knowledge alive 👏👏👏
May I also remind you the fact that our Native American population in our motherland, the Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while the European population in their motherland, the Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering TWO BILLION! A shocking sad truth. 😔
In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people.
Notorious global cardinal crimes the Christian West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? 😔
It's paid with tax payer money, it should be free.....
If it is free, then you are a product.
Why wouldn’t it be free?
Who would pay for a victim blaming documentary besides the left?
Propaganda is allways free.
Frontline, can you make a documentary about the southern US border fence?
Seems too political with an election coming up
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.
Very informative.
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.
This is some of the most well documented and established news agency showing the reality of this war.
Yet they did not mention the "Mass Hannibal" order of the Hannibal doctrine, the fact that so many of their people were killed by their own helicopters and tanks PER ORDERS.
@@BeKindToBirdsthey opening shots are clearly buildings destroyed by tanks and helicopters.
What provokes these ungodly attacks? Maybe the oppression of humans for decades, walling people in, depriving them of basic human rights and necessities, of dignity, of clean and ample water, of voting rights, of freedom, of prosperity, of hope , and mainly depriving them of possibility brings this on. Who else on earth needs this kind of "protection" from their neighbors and why? Israel provokes these attacks every day of the Gazan's lives. What goes around comes around. This will NEVER END until Gazans are granted equal and human rights. And this is not a "war". This is a slaughter of civilians, 70% of whom are women and children , using unguided bombs and eventual starvation and infectious diseases - all violations of the Geneva convention.
They showed the Israeli justification for this "war" and barely glanced at the reality of what's going on in Gaza. If you're upset by the killing and tragedy presented in this video, how do you react to it's magnification by many thousands?
The heartless slaughter in Gaza is genocide, carried out with unimaginable ferocity and cruelty. Denying food and water to two million people is, all by itself, a war crime, a deliberate attempt at mass murder calling for immediate rescue and the arrest of those responsible. But Israel is doing far more, far worse and, yet, The United States is shielding Israel from the consequences it has earned. Instead, it helps Israel paint itself as the victim. That is the reality.
I never knew any of this. I knew about the wall but never knew they have to go to this of a sophisticated extent to keep these people back. An yet, yet it still failed. Unbelievable. An they will either try or do it again. I seen the tunnel video. The engineer involved. They were all in on it.
Thank you to all the Frontline staff for always propducing great documentaries
Tantura documentary
It proves what Israel is..
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
@@72marshflower15 Just proves that both sides are capable of & have committed horrific atrocities. Neither side is a 'good guy'
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t a kibbutz another term for settlement?
Kibbutz means "grouping" or "gathering" in Hebrew.
Its been awhile since the last frontline doc. Happy to see a new one appear. One of my favourite series'
"You treat people like animals; they become animals."
Yep, karma is a bitch 😂
Yep Hamas has treated their own people like animals and has brutally oppressed them and has proved why Israel has to have a fence and a wall to keep these Savages out.
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.
Here for the comments. Please let people speak their minds whether for or against 🙏
I guess but 90% of the people here are either slow or a bot--->- liar liar liar, it's jew progranda....etc etc etc
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.
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.
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.
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?
@@jahidulmawla677But the IDF knew about the plan for Oct 7th months in advance.
@@Tazdeviloo7
They thought it was beyond Hamas's capabilities. Terrible miscalculation.
"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.
I like it. Thank you.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@sharkykzn5846conflict is not home baking. That concept is a little beyond him.
Always a reminder that technology won't always be reliable..
"We didn't think..." "We were not prepared for it". This is the insanity...
it wasnt a “failure”. a three layer fence and wall system, embedded throughout with sensors, cameras, automatic machine guns, guard towers, surveilled by air, land and satellite. even a rabbit that gets close gets shot. they knew this was planned a year before as per the ny times article, and egypt warned them shortly before. you cant tell me it was a “failure”. it was allowed to happen so netanyahu could avoid jail and then level gaza
I along with alot of people I know agree with this 1000%.No other reason fits like this.
Exactly my thoughts after the attack.
Khamas took the bait
They had that fence set up like a concentration camp. Crazy
Gaza was a concentration camp. It will now be an extension of the settler ethno state that is Israel.
You just saw a documentary of what would have happen if the fence wasn't there (rape and murder of Jews) and your reaction is to compare Jews to Nazis.
You are an antisemite.
It's called a border.
Borders look pretty different usually...
The Israelis had detailled plans of the 7.10 attack more than a year ago. They receiced several warnings from their specialist units, that such an attack might happen and might be substatial.
They were informed, that Hamas had trained several sequences of this plan, designated Jericho Wall".
But the officials in charge just ignored all of those warnings.
Well, now 7.10. provides the perfect legitimation for the bombing of Gaza into rubble, and expelling its people.
And, you will see in a decade or so: to annex Gaza.
"Funny" ...isn't it?
@@edenshohat
@@edenshohatyes, East Germany once had a similar type of border.
Seems to be a specialty of sympathetic states, right?
This is great reporting.
Thank you.
23:20 That's weird, the documentary didn't mention that damage was caused by the IDF "Friendly Fire"
IDF helicopters used "Hellfire Missiles" to do such damage.
The "human shield" narrative only is applied to one side of the conflict
@ytb: Nonsense.
Liar
It's not weird. They do this on purpose to brainwash people into thinking Hamas is a terrorist organization.
People are saying Netanyahu purposely allowed this to happen
Yes, and it's obvious...
It would be obvious if he knew.
The testimonies so far from Intel soldiers point to high-ranked military Intel people ignored and disregarded.
These officers were arrogant, and high on their own supply.
All they had to do was give the army units in the area a heads-up the night before.
So much loss of life would have been prevented.
Ive always said frontline should been shown in our school a unbiased look at history being made in real time
UNBIASED.
HAHAHAHAHA
Hannibal directive proves that Israel is lying.
Tantura documentary what?
This documentary is extremely biased. Not for educational use.
The technology of the fence was good, but no effort was made to protect against a major multi facetted attack on it.
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. 💔
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.
Evil is tough to stop. It’s like a cancer. It’s spreading. I have no words on how a human can do this. 😢
Kibbutz are illegal settlements. How should Hamas react to the oppression of the Palestinian people and the stealing of their lands by settlers do you think?
@@charlotteschneider6080what concentration camps? Jails?
Who are you referring to?? The European caucasian IDF and their other Israeli supporters or Hamas and their other Palestinian Semite supporters??
@@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?
☪️ancer upon the 🌎
They barely scratched the surface of complexity, and horror.
Most Israelis killed were soldiers.
The rest killed by IDF.
No I think this covers it.
No rape etc occurred
@@patrickmcnamara2755 you are wrong
@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.
@@zionist424Israeli journalists reported on TV 2 days ago that alot of the most horrible things about women and kids were a lie
I had no idea the Palestinians were so guarded like in a prison with gun turrets targeted on them with balloon cameras and automatic machine gun shooting from the turrets. Outside the wall the Israelis are living in beautiful land with verdant gardens. Look at google earth. What a nightmare/tragedy
the IDF use AI to choose their targets. Once the AI spits out a supposed location, they bomb it. no questions asked.
Also inside Gaza they lived good life. And they can get out to Egypt and Israel through border checkpoints
It will be 10,000,000 times worst for Palestini@ns now!
Open air prison
exactly its they apartheid dream hiliter would be jealous !
Thank you for the video
PBS dropping heat today 🎉🎉🎉
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
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.
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?
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)
"Build the Wall!!, Build the Wall!!, Build the Wall!!"... yeah, right!!
Palestine has a right to defend itself
Walls are never meant to stop just like safes are not secure. Its designed to buy time for a response
Both merely to show intent.
Extraordinary reporting - bravo to all concerned! I truly hope that Frontline can continue this precious work on both sides, without bias, because we need the facts and these reactions to facts - not of talking heads and politicians and all those with points to score but of all those involved and reacting with truth to their own experiences.
Plus the technical explanations, which were terrific. As an American, I wonder if we too don't rely on faulty expectations, over-reliance on technology, faith in human expertise and infallibility. I wonder if our own military won't be showing this Frontline to all their forces as a lesson in never assuming you're safe.
25:05 , omg, she says that as if Palestinians don't have homes demolished or families killed by air strikes or buried memories of children and women.
Their galant said it , Israelis actually don't see Palestinians as humans, they dehumanized them and now ethically cleansing a whole race in Gaza
Yes mostly..until PBS management succumb to pressure and start censoring their own 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
Tantura documentary proves what Israel is..
Get the fuck out already..
Another excellent production by front line. Thank you for showing us your view of this tragic situation.
You have to feel for these individuals. You also can not shake the thought that their government left them exposed. Were they bait beyond a flimsy fence to invite Hamas to throw the national punch that invited the all-out onslaught in retaliation. It just seems too convenient to one distrustful world citizen.
is the flimsy US border an invitation for outsiders to break in too?
Will PBS ever do a similar documentry on the Southern U.S border? While cornpop is still in office.?
The fence has the same limitations of any fixed position or wall. Through out the world wars and other conflicts it has been proven time and again that these can not stop a motivated and well armed force. This is why mobile armor or overwhelming infantry and artillery are the only real solutions to stopping an advance. If the enemy breaches one tiny spot they flow through that spot and in moments the wall becomes the property of the enemy. If you have mobility your force can quickly converge on any attack point or if necessary absorb the attack and give some ground while still maintaining the barrier.
Major strategic mistake to think that an unmanned wall can stop a fighting force. It never has and it never will.
It was meant to be a prison wall. It's not a defensive wall.
@@gatolibero8329 Unguarded prison, which is the same thing if you think about it.
It wasn't meant to keep out a whole army. It was meant to stop a few terrorists from trying to breach and harm the kibbutzim on the border. Until then, the status quo in Israel was nearly 20 years of trying to intercept thousands of Hamas rockets being fired into Israel on a daily basis. That was their main tactic.
@@gatolibero8329exactly
Manned or unmanned, believe me as long as there is injustice, as long as the Palestinians are evicted from their home by the settlers with the support of the Israeli police and army, as long as the Palestinians are deprived of their rights as human beings, as long as children see their fathers killed, as long as mothers see their children killed, there will be a reaction. It is normal, it is human. If you are an American Jew, you can be a prefect Jew without having to go to Palestine and take someone else’s home or kill a Palestinians as if there were cheap.
That’s the show oppression will never work for too long
ولا تحسبن الله غافلا عما يعمل الظالمون إنما يؤخرهم ليوم تشخص فيه الأبصار
Another great documentary
Thank you for making this, it's really important to know what happened that day for many reasons. This is real journalism.
Hannibal directive proves that Israel is lying.
Tantura documentary what?
I'm looking for a similar Frontline documentary on the detestation in Gaza. Have you done one? If not, do you intend to?
The Failure was not the fence, it was that it should never have been built in the first place.
They have an older documentary called Netanyahu's War. It gives a lot of insight into what's going on today.
Thanks
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?
@jaymesnin when itzhak rabin was killed by an extremist close to Netanyahu Israelis were chanting bibi is a murderer.They must make a documentary how com Bibi Netanyahu was in the highest power positions for decades in Israel?
@@sokolallaraj4646 it's in one of the most recent episodes of Frontline too.
Does it mention how Israel has never accepted a 2 state settlement based on international law?
Any plans on doing a similar story on Palestinian families who have also been broken apart due to the war?
Not seeing the parallel. The Israelis weren't "broken apart", they were murdered.
@@gandydancer9710 Are Palestinian citizens not being murdered?
You have (most likely) seen tens of those programs. This program concentrates on the failure to avert the carnage that started all. If the Israeli military could have stopped the Hamas terrorists all the suffering that happened them and is happening since them would have being avoided. BTW, even this program calls Hamas "fighters', a word that is not applicable to people that kidnap, rape and burn civilians, including children.
@@albertowachsman7878October 7th is far from the "carnage that started it all"... Did you watch the video?
@@albertowachsman7878please, what do you call the people that have killed 10,000 Palestinian women and children... angels?
This is good journalism
Sometimes you put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down ~ Socrates
You mean what Savages will do to break them down
Go out and touch some grass@@lisawise9849
@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
@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
This isn't the case.
It's almost as if they were surveilling an open air prison.
actually it is
Factual journalism.
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.
No one i mean abso lute ly NO one comes even close to Frontline PBS Documentary. No O N E. Legitimate professional journalism at its best. The guys are Top Shelf. Risk everything including camera operators to get this footage. Thank you Frontline for your efforts AND Top Shelf journalism ❤
They are spreading neutral propaganda, nothing more.
Israel bulldozes a tent city and the people in it, assassinates doctors and poets with their whole families, kills their own civilians with tanks and helicopters in a "mass Hannibal doctrine" on Oct 7th and you call them the most professionals?
If you aren't a shill or a bot then please open your eyes to what is happening. This is ethnic cleansing and the lies about oct 7th are horrific.
They killed their own people with rockets and tank shells, they shot into houses and count every armed milita member as a "civilian"
The lies about oct 7th are tumbling down day by day and PBS released this?
Frontline only spews forth western propaganda. Otherwise they would not have a platform.
One of the most daring prison breaks ever witnessed
These Savages proved exactly why there has to be a fence and a wall up, you could say they built Their Own Prison to live in.
@@lisawise9849it’s a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, or in Arabic, Intifada
you can't illegally prison 2.4 million people and call them names@@lisawise9849
Yes And they need to be put back back in Jail as we can clearly see they belong in jail
@@NajashiProductionsthe Warsaw uprising did not target women and children for execution en mass
The Israelis will never forgive them for this.
Muslims will never forgive israelis for their atrocities committed during 75 years of occupation
Imagine treating people like shit for years and being surprised when they reacted with violence.
Imagine that you know that you're living amongst terrorists, and wondering why you are being treated like shit
@@MattB787 Israel is a terrorist state. Dropping dumb bombs on innocent civilians. Not allowing people freedom of movement. Jobs, limiting food and fuel supplies and this was before October 7th. Not to mention stealing land.
The rabbit is out of the bag and the whole world can see how the right wing Israeli government behaves.
You're being a little tough on Hamas, no? Oh wait.
@@MattB787agreed. I’d never want to live next door to an Israeli
@MattB787 the Israelis understand perfectly the apart hide system they have built.
The attackers' motivation, rather than their methods, should be the focus of inquiry.
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.
@@jcliu
The Hebrews are invading colonial force of racial suprmacists
The Nakba, the occupation, and the poverty camps in the diaspora always remain the greatest motivator for the Palestinians
It’s not the news some will accept, but there is obviously a trend. The resistance is growing stronger and more sophisticated each decade. Considering that Hamas has only been around since the late eighties, it’s astonishing. The latest fighting is also creating more support allies around the world. The US and the settler colony increasingly stand alone.
What? All these videos were circulating around and they were still caught off guard? WTH?
Frontline took a HUGE nosedive at some point in the past ten years. I've recently seen 2 outstanding Frontline DOCS. Please continue this trajectory in the excellence we all come to love and respect from PBS! Our Libraries, PBS, NPR must continue. They are needed. Thank you!
Frontline has always been great. have you seen them?
@@Khuros Frontline, PBS and NPR have all suffered from ideological capture by the woke mind-virus. To not see that is to have lost your own objectivity in the pursuit of truth.
Ultra biased but well produced. I can at least stomach them. Except for that Jan 6 episode. It was an over dramatization of an exaggeration, which is nicer than saying "straight up lying" 😂
They are not ultra biased haha. Have you seen their Afghanistan stuff? They are brutal to Obama and the rest. Jan 6th was fully recorded. It's not up for debate. It was clearly an insurrection attempt. They wanted to hang the vice president... Screaming "wheres nancy" while having zipcuffs. Again, they recorded it themselves.@@zexnynex777
@@zexnynex777 You're right, nothing happened at all. Just some tourists, nothing more.
Suppose the side other than your own had done it, would you have the same charged reaction? Something to think about, especially when you accuse PBS of "ultra biased" and ""straight up lying""
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
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.
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).
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
Obviously, you're one of those who believe that it all started on Oct 7th!@@oleggold
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.
These poor people. OMG,
The similarities between the Bar Lev line in 1973 and Gaza border is so striking. The intelligence blunder, the unpreparedness, the attempts to coverup are so similar as if reenactment, a second take in film production. The Israeli complacent and hubris are the same😢
Well that's one side of the story....there is another side.....wonder if it will get the same attention 🤔
yeah and there is also another side to the story that the earth is a sphere. Hopefully they will give that some attention too!
@@jakobg8213 ?
We cant depend on technology alone. Man power and technology should go hand in hand.
There must be soldiers rooming around the borders and telescope and watch tower. Not depend on technology.
You can depend on peace. It’s easier and cheaper. I don’t know how people want to live safely on a stolen land.