Irish Examiner view: Gaza counts cost of historic failure

Fire and smoke rise after an Israeli air strike targeted the National Bank on Gaza City, on Sunday. Picture: Ahmed Zakout/AFP 

For Israel the immediate cost of a failure in its fabled intelligence and security networks can be measured in many hundreds of dead and injured civilians and the capture of more than 100 Jewish hostages.

But with the dangerous lurch into war it can be guaranteed that there will be a price paid also by the general population of Gaza.