These soldiers are expected to maintain their positions in the southern Gaza Strip for the foreseeable future.

Nearly a third of Israel’s agricultural land lies in frontline areas, with about 22% in the Gaza border area and 10% on the northern border with Lebanon.

The terrorist was reportedly identified as a Canadian Muslim who had landed in Israel just hours earlier.

'If the system had been working in those hours, it would have been very likely that dramatic information would have arrived to change the intelligence picture,' a former senior army intelligence source told the outlet.

The process will see the military shift away from more passive defensive measures to a security doctrine that will push Gazans away from the border