Videos appear to show Hamas fighters infiltrating Israel and launching attacks using motorised paragliders.
Hundreds have been killed after Hamas gunmen entered Israel from Gaza by land, sea and air, launching an unprecedented attack. More than 230 Gazans were also killed when Israel responded with one of its most devastating days of retaliatory strikes.
Hamas began its offensive, named "Operation Al Aqsa Storm", on Saturday local with a salvo of missiles launched from Gaza followed by militants crossing the border.
And now, video is emerging showing just how militants were able to cross over.
Multiple eyewitness videos show Hamas fighters flying in on motorised paragliders.
Hamas later published video footage of fighters training on the devices.
Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, said the attack was driven by what it said were Israel's escalated attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and against Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
"This is the day of the greatest battle to end the last occupation on earth," Hamas military commander Mohammad Deif said, announcing the start of the operation in a broadcast on Hamas media and calling on Palestinians everywhere to fight.
Gaza has been devastated by four wars and countless skirmishes between Hamas and Israel since the militants seized control of the strip in 2007. But the scenes of violence inside Israel itself were beyond anything seen there even at the height of the Palestinian Intifada uprisings of past decades.
That Israel was caught completely off guard was lamented as one of the worst intelligence failures in its history, a shock to a nation that boasts of its intensive infiltration and monitoring of militants.
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