Yahya Sinwar (AP/Khalil Hamra)
“Hamas leadership planned and carried out an attack that featured acts of ‘extraordinary brutality,’” the researchers concluded.”
By i24 News, Algemeiner and World Israel News
A handwritten memo authored by late Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar shows the arch terrorist’s instructions to his men ahead of the October 7th attack included orders to target Israelis with acts of violence that would shock and destabilize the country.
Sinwar specified that the violence should be filmed and broadcast, according to a New York Times report on Saturday.
The New York Times report indicates that the terrorists were instructed to ignite homes using “gasoline or diesel from a tanker,” and to carry out “two or three operations, in which an entire neighborhood, kibbutz, or something similar will be burned.”
On October 7th, intercepted communications from the IDF’s Unit 8200 revealed that Hamas commanders on the ground ordered their forces to burn “anything” and set the “whole kibbutz” on fire.
Others directed their subordinates to “slaughter” soldiers at close range and “film the scenes and broadcast to the entire Muslim world.”
Israeli officials said the document, together with the intercepted messages, demonstrates that Hamas had meticulously planned its unprecedented and brutal assault on civilians, contradicting the group’s previous claims that the attack was purely military in nature.
Many homes were set on fire in the southern Israeli communities devastated by Palestinian jihadists on October 7th, and acts of barbaric violence were posted to social media and live-streamed.
The document was discovered in the underground hideout of Muhammed Sinwar, who briefly served as the top Hamas official in Gaza following the killing of his brother before being killed in an IDF strike.
The NYT report cites a confidential analysis of the memo and of intercepted Hamas communications on the day of the attack by Israel’s Gazit institute, a think tank affiliated with Israel’s military intelligence.
“Hamas leadership planned and carried out an attack that featured acts of ‘extraordinary brutality,’” the researchers concluded. “Its aim was to cause great turmoil in the country and the military.”
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