I'm sure it was a holy day on Saturday and a public holiday of some sort.Just looking on the news that Israel has issued a call up of 300k reservists and are starting to send armour to the borders so not only does it look like they were caught on the hop they inexplicably don't seem to have an action plan in place should such an attack happen - complacency?
It was obviously planned for maximum harm and to maximise the success of taking numerous hostages.
Going off the brutality alone, Hamas are essentially equivalent to ISIS.