The Israeli military’s focus on intelligence, air power and technology left it vulnerable to a low-tech ground assaultTEL AVIV—Israel spent three years building a 40-mile-long, state-of-the-art, high-tech security barrier along the Gaza Strip, with radar and sensors designed to detect furtive incursions by Palestinians bent on carrying out covert attacks in Israel.
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