General Discussion

Second, since Hamas had not been as aggressively bombing Israel as other terror groups and as Netanyahu was trying to keep some appeasement by passing Qatarian money to Gaza, the eyes were more on the north towards the Lebanese border rather than the Gazan border. Third, there was the issue mentioned in the OP, where the spotters, apparently a number of female ones were not initially believed that fighters were Invading the state of Israel, contributing to a delay. Still, I think a lot of Israelis have questions.

I think it is unfairly speculative and conspiratorial to imply LIHOP as many pro-Palestinian people have done.