Remarkable analysis of the war between Hamas and Israel from Reuters: here are the details of the secret attack plan
In Saturday’s attacks, which coincided with the Jewish Sabbath and religious holidays, Hamas militants took Israeli security by surprise, attacking Israeli cities and killing at least 700 Israelis. Israel killed nearly 500 Palestinians in Gaza in retaliation. While this incident was on the agenda of the international community, the British news agency Reuters analyzed how Hamas surprised Israel and its secret plans…
In Reuters news, “Behind the sudden attacks by the Palestinian organization Hamas against Israel with bulldozers, paramotors and motorcycles on Saturday lay meticulous and long preparation to take Israel by surprise. “While Saturday’s attacks took place as a result of a two-year intrigue in which Hamas secretly carried out its military plans and convinced Israel that it did not want to fight, the Israeli army opened the largest gap since the war of Yom Kippur with the Arab armies in 1973.”
Although Israel, which recently lifted the blockade on the Gaza Strip and allowed Gazan workers to return to work in Israel and the West Bank, believes it has reined in war-weary Hamas, according to a source close to Hamas. The organization’s militants continued to carry out their training and exercises mainly in public.
Reuters combined information about the attack from a source close to Hamas and three sources within the Israeli security services.
Beirut-born former adult film actress Mia Khalifa’s statement about the war sparked reactions. “Hamas fighters should record their attacks against Israel horizontally, turning their phones sideways,” she Khalifa said.
“Hamas has given Israel the impression that it is not prepared for war,” the Hamas source said, adding: “Hamas has created a clear impression in recent months that it does not want to confront or enter into conflict with Israel. and at the same time, during preparations for a major operation, “He used a unique intelligence deception tactic,” he said.
“This (attack) is our 9/11. “They defeated us,” said Maj. Nir Dinar, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces. “They surprised us and came quickly from many points, including air, land and sea.”
Hamas representative in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan, said in a statement to Reuters that these attacks demonstrated that the Palestinians had the will to achieve their goals, “regardless of Israel’s power and military capacity.”
It was announced that the credit card of tattoo artist Shani Louk, 30, who died in the Hamas attack, was used in Gaza.
THE SECRET PLAN OF HAMAS
The source close to Hamas claimed that the organization built an artificial Israeli settlement in Gaza and carried out landing exercises and troop attacks there, and continued: “Israel definitely saw them, but they were convinced that Hamas did not want to get into the conflict.” .
Hamas tried to convince Israel that it did not want to start a new war and that its main desire was to ensure that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with a population of two million, could cross the border again and return to work.
Since the war with Hamas in 2021, Israel has sought to establish basic economic stability in the Gaza Strip by providing Gazans with economic opportunities, such as work permits in Israel and the West Bank. Wages paid in construction, agriculture and service jobs in Israeli cities and the West Bank can be ten times higher than those paid in Gaza.
Israeli soldiers passed by and inspected Israelis killed in the Hamas attack.
Another Israeli army spokesman said: “We believed that the fact that they would come to work and bring money to Gaza would create some calm. “We were wrong,” he said.
Although Islamic Jihad, the armed Islamist organization in Gaza, carried out armed attacks and rocket attacks against Israel from time to time, Hamas did not attack Israel within the scope of its secret two-year plan.
Stating that this inaction attracted reaction from some supporters, the source close to Hamas claimed that Hamas consciously stayed away from the actions to create the impression that it did not want a new war and had only economic concerns.
Israel is known to boast of its successes in infiltration and surveillance against Islamist organizations. Therefore, the most important element of Hamas’s attack plan is to prevent infiltration, a source close to Hamas said.
LAUNCH OF THE FIRST MOVEMENT 3000 MISSILES
The Hamas source said that many Hamas leaders were unaware of the attack plan and that the 1,000 militants who participated in the attack had no idea about the purpose of the exercises.
The Hamas source explained that the first step of the attack was the launching of 3,000 rockets from Gaza and the simultaneous crossing of the border by militants using motorized parachutes.
Once the motorized paratroopers landed and took control of the area, elite commando units could attack the electronically fortified concrete walls that Israel had built against infiltration.
After the militants used explosives to destroy the walls, they crossed the border on motorcycles. As bulldozers widened the gap in the wall, vans carrying more militants crossed the border.
According to the source, a Hamas commando unit attacked the Israeli army base in southern Gaza, disabling communications at the base and preventing officers from reporting to their commanders.
The Hamas source stated that the last step was to take hostage the Israelis taken hostage in the first phase of the attack on Gaza.
Militants stormed a music festival near the settlement of Re’im, near Gaza, killing hundreds of people there and taking dozens hostage.
REACTION TO THE CONDUCT OF A FESTIVAL NEAR THE BORDER
An Israeli security source asked: “How can a party be held so close to Gaza?” he stated.
The Israeli security source stated that the troops around southern Gaza were not at full strength because some of the Israeli troops were deployed in the West Bank to protect Israeli settlers and said: “Hamas used this.”
Stating that Israel remained “weak and unprepared in the south” as it grappled with violence in the West Bank, Dennis Ross, an expert on Middle East Policy at the Washington Institute, said: “Hamas has probably achieved success beyond its expectations.” . “Now they have to deal with Israel, which is determined to destroy them,” he said.
Retired Gen. Yaakov Amidror, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former national security adviser, told reporters yesterday that the Hamas attack revealed “a major flaw in (Israel’s) intelligence system and military structure in the south.”