2023-12-01 08:51:02
07:16: Israel has known for more than a year that Hamas was preparing an unprecedented attack
Israeli officials had obtained Hamas’s plan to carry out an unprecedented attack on Israel more than a year in advance, but deemed the scenario unrealistic, the report said Thursday. New York Times based on secret documents.
Israeli military intelligence had got its hands on a document of around forty pages from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas detailing, point by point, a vast attack like the one perpetrated by commandos on October 7 which left around 1,200 dead in Israel, according to the major American daily.
This document, which circulated in intelligence circles under the code name “Jericho Wall”, did not give a date for a possible attack but defined precise points to saturate the Israeli security system and then attack targets. cities and military bases. But it was “not possible to determine” whether this plan had been approved “completely” by the Hamas leadership and how it could translate into reality, underlines an internal Israeli army document obtained by the Times.
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