Failure at the Fence (full documentary) | FRONTLINE +
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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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
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
Frontline dous amazing work, i listened to them since childhood
They are biased disinformation
They also make propaganda
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.
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.
Well done on the reporting
I appreciate this documentary very much. Great work!
This will never happen in Israel again!Just makes them stronger!
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
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.
Thank you for the video
The Israelis will never forgive them for this.
Muslims will never forgive israelis for their atrocities committed during 75 years of occupation
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 ..
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
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.
Thank you.
So chilling and tragic 😔😔😔😢
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""
"A line is only as strong as it's weakest link." An old military statement.
Excellent work thanks
Its been awhile since the last frontline doc. Happy to see a new one appear. One of my favourite series'
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
Very informative.
This breaks my heart and wish so badly they would have picked my small town here in Texas. Enough said. God bless yall 🙏
Frontline your team should make documentary on Nakba so viewers don't have blind spot in this conflict
Nakba is as fake as Palestine. Nakba in one line . Arabs promising liberation asked villages to evacuate to end up getting smoked. Dumb of you to trust Arabs.
They have one called Netanyahu's War. In hindsight, it explains why he acted like that in the 90's, and it's so he can do what he's doing today. He got the opportunity.
They should make a vid about the ethnic cleansing of 800,000 mirhzi jews from arab vountries
You're right. The woke universities that can't even condemn the genocide of Jews aren't doing a good enough job talking about the nakba. C'mmon.
I think Frontline does current events.
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..
Es ist immer wichtig, die Ursachen zu benennen. Danke für die neutrale Sicht.
Neutral? 😂
The truth!! Thank you.
Another great documentary
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.
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 would be good to know whether Frontline pixelated the images of the fighters crossing the border and if so, why?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 🧱🧱🧱
This is good journalism
I'm confused. When they talk about snipers coming in the night and going to the roof to attack other positions, the IDF does the exact same thing to the Palestinians in the West Bank? Of course, the IDF hasn't taken that many lives in a single day, but every day regular civilians in the West Bank are shot by the IDF or settlers in the tens. Far more than 10,000 Palestinians had been killed that way since the occupation of the West Bank from the 70s. Why aren't showing the other side too? What about those killed in the Nakba? I would suggest watching also the documentary "Tantura" (that is available in vary streaming services). IDF who served in 1948 tell the stories of what they did then to the Palestinian population - some of them regretting their actions while others brushed it off as "something that happened and you just move on"
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.
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?
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.
if people can not live together in peace, they are not worth of your thought and care.
Thank you to all the Frontline staff for always propducing great documentaries
Propa-ducing...
Yes,thank you
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?!
@@allhopeabandon7831 oh no, your people are portrayed in a negative light, DEFLECT DEFLECT DEFLECT. Loser
@@allhopeabandon7831 illi - terate
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?
Really informative. Appreciate the on the ground effort.
This is maybe the best thing I've ever seen Frontline do. It showed the security failures in a really detailed way, and then it really brought home the human cost at the end. Seeing those destroyed kibbutzim and the people talking about who specifically was killed and who was kidnapped really showed the horrors so vividly.
That happened in the Westbank for decades and you did not care lmao
@@sA-ny2jl: And Netanyahu has admitted to funding Hamas for the specific intent of diminishing the PLO, suppressing the Palestinian people and denying Palestinian statehood. As Netanyahu told the Knesset, "funding Hamas is good for Israel". How is the most heavily surveilled, heavily armed and heavily manned border in the world, left virtually unattended on the very day that Hamas attacked. And now the evidence is leaking out that Israel was warned that this attack was imminent, but that wasn't enough for Israel to beef up its border security. Instead, there was a skeleton crew in place. It's too bad that Frontline won't do a report on how much damage, carnage and killing the IDF did to its own citizens with their response. But that to will be exposed over time. And understand, that every second of this footage was reviewed by the Israeli military. Nothing main stream gets out that they don't want the world to see.
Lefty Israel establishment responsible for horrifically failed
@@sA-ny2jl All the land belongs to Palestinians.
@@sA-ny2jlYes well said I agree
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 🌎
I'm looking for a similar Frontline documentary on the detestation in Gaza. Have you done one? If not, do you intend to?
Imagine being welcomed to a land then taking it over and setting up a billion dollar wall.
You would have to use your imagination to dream that up because it never happened
Nothing condones the rapes and murders that happened that day
@@inanimatecarbonrod83 is this not the basic foundation of current Israel?
@@samanthamountain9764 No.
@samanthamountain9764 that wall went up because of constant suicide bombings and to prevent weapons smuggling...that wall is several feet deep into the ground
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 a video of the destruction in gaza. We need both sides of the story
Israel won't permit them.
Hamas controls the media there. Always has.
Yes, the Palestinian perspective was almost entirely lacking in the Frontline report. a typical western media.
Another excellent production by front line. Thank you for showing us your view of this tragic situation.
Factual journalism.
This is so well done. Thank you for showing those of us who are not there.
"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.
The question is did Israel allow it to happen to have a excuse to destroy Gaza.
next question would be, was hamas that stupid?
This is great reporting.
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
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 didn't think..." "We were not prepared for it". This is the insanity...
I know a handful of jews here in America and I was always under the impression that everyone inside Israel was packing heat but I guess I was wrong.
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.
PBS dropping heat today 🎉🎉🎉
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.
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.
thank you Frontline for amazing work and information n journalism and always getting the truth out there
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.
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
It’s a good thing those IDF Apache helicopter pilot interviews were published.
The fact that we get free videos on KZhead 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.
To not expect an uprising in the new Warsaw Ghetto is to forget their own history.
The Jews that revolted in the Warsaw Ghetto did not and would NEVER go around butchering and raping the families of Nazi or German soldiers. The barbarity and savagery of the Palestinian terrorists are know to us Israelis unfortunately for decades. They have been committing these atrocities, only on a smaller scale for more than 150 years. The Jews never did such awful things.
Well said. The irony is palpable.
Just as it was suppressed. Israel failed to suppress Hamas for a decade. Paying for it's complacency Btw gaza is no way appartheid or ghetto or concentration camps even with intense Israeli control over what goes in and out. Of what Israel has allowed into gaza and WB. Since 1994 40 billion USD. Had Israel freezed them knowing it won't benefit end user, Israel deliberately allowed cement and TMTs which Hamas now used to build tunnels and wage warfare. German and EU funds for water pipes now are rockets
So the new Warsaw Ghetto, like the old one you're referring to, is also ment to send all inhabitants to the destruction camps.
Refaat Alareer referred to Gaza as Warsaw Jewish Ghetto. He was killed for that by the Israelis. Israel cannot handle truth.
One can't help noticing that many Israelis speak English with an American accent. This, to me, says a great deal.
Yes, it says that a hell of a lot of Jews who were not in the US got killed off in the years 1933-1945. And Hitler wasn't able to kill off the ones who got to the US before those years. And the US and Israel being on friendly terms, there's a lot of travel back and forth. Lastly, if you learned English in the last 50 years, there's a pretty good chance you learned American English from movies, TV, American teachers, etc.
kind of odd to focus on how they got out of their cage and not why they are caged to begin with
It's pretty obvious why they are "caged in" and they could just go to Egypt but wait Egypt doesn't want them either. Wonder why.
@@paulmea3166not obvious to me. please explain
@@sleddy01 They got Gaza in 2005 when Israel left it taking out 10,000 jews, then they elected Hamas, started shooting rockets at Israel which caused Israel to have a siege so that they won't stock up on rockets, something that failed. Maybe if they had chosen peace and stopped shooting rockets they would not have been sieged
Keep up the good work 👏
"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..
These poor people. OMG,
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!!
have a heart and just pray for the kids💔😭
Thoughts and prayers lmao
The Failure was not the fence, it was that it should never have been built in the first place.
I’m so sorry for the way life has treated your people over the last few months. I hope for peace for you and yours.
"Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people." - Nelson Mandela
@@slipcosp WTF?
@@thomasdeanda2360Palestine will be free
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?
Interesting reportage. Make a sequel - how and why the attacked waited several hours for help!
because it served a bigger agenda to do in Gaza what it's doing now;)
WOW that’s IDF soldier was extremely thoughtful and foresaw the responsibility they have
The tragedy in this story is that Israel spent a billion to build a wall, deprive millions of people from basic human dignity by imprisoning them and choking them in submission. What could they have done differently? A prisoner needs a guard. That guard is also a prisoner to the prisoner.
Genuine question: what could they have done differently? Now that we have seen what happens when there is freedom of movement between Gaza and Israel, what alternative did Israel have other than building a wall to prevent Gazans from entering Israel?
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.
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)
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.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t a kibbutz another term for settlement?
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
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.
It's a sad story of are people that hate their enemies more than they love their children
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.
Man this Frontline series is amazing, excellent work along with the other stories you’ve done
Have they shown the apartied? Have they shown what it is to live under occupation? Have they talked about when this war actually started seventy years ago and why? Detailed narrow focus documentary that in effect perpetuates the overall propaganda through ommision of the rest of the facts that are relevant.
You should check out Fear and Loathing in a New Jerusalem. It will help you understand the conflict. Sources say 80 percent of the casualties on that first day were caused by the Israeli response to the attack.
@@patland1762 Enough with your fake. Israel left Gaza in 2006, and issued thousands of work permit to Gazans so they could make good money working in Israel. The jihadi Hamas=Isis terrorists ideology is to destroy Israel at all cost. As long that people like you will support jihadi Hamas=Isis terrorists, there will be no peace.
@@patland1762 There is no apartied, arabs are free to live as they want in israel, palestine is not part of israel so israel shouldn't care for them as for their own citizens
@@MrGakyyou are poorly informed. There is apartied
yes
The damage to some houses looks like it could be only be done with tanks shells killing everybody inside. Small arms fire can't blow such large holes through walls. This interview is on Middle East Eye: An Israeli mother and daughter, who were recently held hostage and subsequently released from captivity in Gaza, have shared their experiences, detailing their surprise at the treatment they witnessed. In an interview aired on Israel’s Channel 12, they reported that their captors allowed them to exercise, taught new games to the children, including card games, and treated women with respect. Ajam, the daughter, described that she was given the nickname 'Salsabeel'. They added that one of the captors used a hand towel to avoid direct contact during a game of arm-wrestling.
Intelligent people know that Israel did it
Agree. Did you see when Elon was there this is what he was taking photos of. There is even an account of an Israeli talking about the IDF using a tank on their compound.
Wow sounds like they were treated exquisitely. Makes you wonder why did they even agree to be released 🤔 They should have stayed there with their captors, new best friends.
So those two were lucky - IF they were telling the truth. And others had to sit still without moving in a dark room for more than 50 days. They also said that they don’t want to say anything bad about Hamas as they don’t want to risk anything bad happening to the remaining hostages.
Exactly!! Was hamas coming to attack with tanks and helicopter apaches???
This documentary needs to be completed by non sided reporters. Kind of independant investigation to put light on really what happened.
Yes, because this is only a small part of the story. History did not start on October 7 and what is happening in Gaza now isn’t the first massacre Israel commits
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.
Great info and showed the best way of documenting an event.
Hannibal directive proves that Israel is lying. Tantura documentary what?