New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance | AP News |

Israeli officials had obtained Hamas's plan for an unprecedented attack on Israel over a year in advance, but had deemed the scenario to be aspirational, reports The New York Times in an investigation based on secret documents, published on Thursday, November 30. Israeli military intelligence had gotten hold of a 40-page Hamas document detailing, point by point, a large-scale attack matching the one perpetrated by commandos on October 7 - which left some 1,200 people dead in Israel - according to the American newspaper.

The document, which had circulated within intelligence circles under the code-name "Jericho Wall", did not specify a possible date for an attack, but defined precise points for overwhelming the Israeli security apparatus and then attacking towns and military bases. More specifically, the document describes a barrage of rockets, the use of drones to take out security cameras and automated defense systems, and then fighters who would cross to the Israeli side by paraglider, car and on foot - all of which were factors in the October 7 attack.

'A plan designed to start a war'

Yet it was "not yet possible to determine" whether this plan had been "fully accepted" by the Hamas leadership and how it might work out in reality, insists an internal Israeli army military assessment obtained by The New York Times. In July, however, an analyst from the elite signals intelligence Unit 8200 warned that Hamas had just conducted a military exercise that in many respects resembled the "Jericho Wall" document's attack plan. But a colonel in the military division responsible for Gaza dismissed her warning.

From Kan News link above (Hebrew) ...

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