Failure at the Fence: How Hamas breached Israel s Iron Wall, The Washington Post + frontline

When Israeli military leaders said in 2021 that a 1 billion revamp of the longstanding barrier along the Gaza Strip would prevent incursions from Hamas, people living in the nearby Kfar Aza kibbutz trusted them. They build a big wall, they said to us, resident Israel Lender, 65, said in an interview for this film, a collaboration between The Washington Post and frontline. We believed that this can protect us, he said. The documentary examines the barriers catastrophic failure. The investigation found that the socalled Iron Wall was in fact a fragile barrier that gave Israel a false sense of security. A dependence on the structure and its sophisticated surveillance tools ultimately blinded Israel to its own vulnerabilities and to a meticulous plan of attack that was taking shape on the other side. The film expands on a visual investigation published by The Post last month, which reconstructed the attack: Reporters anal