The Hamas assault on the Erez crossing, the looming symbol of Israel’s security infrastructure at the far northern end of the Gaza Strip, was indicative of what would come at other key locations.
A maze of rooms, with cameras, hi-tech scanners and “tiger trap” doors, all overseen by Israeli officials who deliver commands by loudspeaker, it is also a surveillance and communications hub, set into the high concrete wall guarding that part of Gaza.
Launched not long after daybreak last Saturday, Hamas’s attack on the
