They are referred to as Israel’s border eyes with Gaza.
Units of young conscripted women worked here in unison for years. It involved spending hours watching monitoring bases for any unusual activity.
They did start to notice things in the months before Hamas’s attacks on October 7th, including simulated hostage-taking, practice raids, and suspicious behavior from farmers on the opposite side of the barrier.
They would provide intelligence and higher-ranking officials with information about what they were seeing, according to Noa—not her real name—but they were unable to take further action. “We were just the eyes,” she claims.
Some of these women could clearly see that Hamas was organizing a major event; according to Noa, there was a “balloon.
