The Palestinian Hamas movement wanted to attack Israel in the fall of 2022, but postponed its plans because it wanted to enlist the support of Iran and the Shiite Hezbollah movement. This was reported by The New York Times, citing minutes of meetings of the Hamas leadership captured by the Israeli military.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, according to the publication, the documents were found in January in the underground command center of the movement in Khan Yunis and contain minutes of 10 meetings of the Hamas leadership, which, among other things, indicate that the movement has deliberately not entered into major confrontations with Israel in order to lull the vigilance of the Israeli authorities and subsequently take advantage of the effect of surprise.
In addition, the newspaper claims, Hamas asked the Iranian authorities, as well as Hezbollah, to strike Israeli targets during the attack. The New York Times states that Iranian officials and Hezbollah allegedly supported Hamas’s plan in principle, but asked for more time to prepare.
Hamas’ decision to attack, the publication points out, was influenced by the desire to prevent the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.