It’s reasonable to believe, with almost complete certainty, that the terrorists who infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip and were captured near the fence of the Tze’elim army base weren’t planning to carry out a terror attack. They likely wanted to be caught in possession of weapons, so that they would be apprehended and placed in an Israeli jail.

Regardless of their motive, however, the entire incident points to a serious border protection failure.

This isn’t a new practice. In recent years, in the wake of the growing humanitarian distress in Gaza, quite a few young Gazans were captured on Israeli territory in possession of weapons they didn’t even try to use. Later, they explained they wanted to be arrested so they could spend a few years in the Israeli jail, where they are entitled to three meals a day and are given the option of studying.

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