Warning: serious armchair science going on in my comment here
Probably easy target
I’m guessing this is most of it. Looks like a ~7 minute drive from the border. Actually, to avoid the radar marked on the map they probably came in exactly where I put that purple arrow.
sends a chilling message
Actually I’m saying kinda the opposite. There’s 4 schools 7 minutes south, coulda sent a bigger message.
I’m piecing this together as we go. Ok so I checked the distance from Sa’ad to Sderot (30 minutes by car) and while doing so I noticed something.
There was a key on the map I didn’t understand “kibbutz portal”. Well if you were planning on driving from Sa’ad to Sderot the “kibbutz portal” is the road google maps tells you to start at.
So they probably started here, attacked Sa’ad and then took the “kibbutz portal” to Sderot
Edit: Theres 3 directions out, the purple arrow (25), 232 and the “kibbutz portal”. It looks like starting from the purple arrow would allow Hamas to push that town in the direction of the “kibbutz portal”. I’m not convinced 25 is open but I’m basing that 100% on the fact that google maps wont let me force the directions to take that road by dropping a pin