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The Palestinian militant group Hamas built a mock Israeli town in Gaza and practiced attacking in plain sight — but Israel didn’t react, Reuters reported on Sunday.

The attack followed a careful campaign of deception by Hamas that ensured Israel was caught off guard over the weekend, an unnamed source, with connections to the group, told Reuters.

Despite convincing Israel that they had no interest in war, Hamas militants were practicing for the offensive in plain sight by setting up a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza to train its fighters.

“Israel surely saw [the videos], but they were convinced that Hamas wasn’t keen on getting into a confrontation,” the source told Reuters.

In the years leading up to the attack, Hamas fighters wanted to give the impression that they were war-weary and more concerned about ensuring that workers in Gaza had access to jobs in Israel.

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday said he had ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip: “No electricity, no food, no fuel.”

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