Captured documents reveal Hamas's broader ambition to wreak havoc on Israel

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Source: Washington Post

Years before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Hamas’s leaders plotted a far deadlier wave of terrorist assaults against Israel — potentially including a Sept. 11-style toppling of a Tel Aviv skyscraper — while they pressed Iran to assist in helping achieve their vision of annihilating the Jewish state, according to documents seized by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Electronic records and papers that Israeli officials say were recovered from Hamas command centers show advanced planning for attacks using trains, boats and even horse-drawn chariots — though several plans were ill-formed and highly impractical, terrorism experts said. The plans anticipate drawing in allied militant groups for a combined assault against Israel from the north, south and east.

The trove of documents includes an annotated, illustrated presentation detailing possible options for an assault as well as letters from Hamas to Iran’s top leaders in 2021 requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and training for 12,000 additional Hamas fighters. It is unclear whether Iran knew of the planning document or responded to the letters, but Israeli officials view the requests as part of a larger effort by Hamas to draw its Iranian allies into the kind of direct confrontation with Israel that Tehran has traditionally sought to avoid.

The 59 pages of letters and planning documents in Arabic obtained by The Washington Post represent a fraction of the thousands of records that Israel Defense Forces say they have seized since Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza began Oct. 27.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/12/exclusive-hamas-documents-sinwar-planning-iran/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

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In the letters written in 2021, Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar mounts a vigorous appeal to several senior Iranian officials — including the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei — for additional financial and military support, pledging that, with Iran’s backing, he could destroy Israel completely in two years.

“We promise you that we will not waste a minute or a penny unless it takes us toward achieving this sacred goal,” states a June 2021 letter with apparent signatures by Sinwar as well as five other Hamas officials.

In the letters, Sinwar does not provide details of how he intended to destroy Israel. Israeli and other Middle Eastern officials say Tehran was surprised by the attack on Oct. 7, and angry at Sinwar for not revealing his intentions in advance. But they contend that both Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah knew that Hamas was making preparations for a major assault. “It was their shared strategy to attack Israel,” one analyst said. U.S. and Israeli analysts believe that Iran provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas’s military wing and increased its support in 2023.

Tehran declined to involve itself directly in Hamas’s fight after the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel. Since then, as the conflict expanded to include Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel and IDF strikes on Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — and, in recent weeks, a land invasion of southern Lebanon — Iran has been pulled ever deeper into the conflict, including with two massive aerial assaults on the Jewish state.

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2. Gifted link to the article

https://wapo.st/3Y79vjU

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3. Thanks. n/t

[iemanja]

4. Thank you!

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5. Any Pro-Palestinian dipshits (yes, I said it, that's what you are) want to still "defend"

Hamas against Israel? Hmm?

I can hear that hem-hawing now. "But.... But... Palestine is not Hamas."

They are when they allow those dickheads to remain in power, do their talking for them, and keep VOTING for them time and again.

I find it hilarious (in a sarcastic way) that we slam MAGAts and such for their love of Dumpy the Clown, calling them names and labeling them as stupid but some will treat Palestine and Hamas with kid gloves, even maybe excusing their actions for the past year because they don't like the PM of Israel.

Yeah, we all DO NOT like Bibi, but that doesn't mean you support the OTHER terrorist in the room.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't always track.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Efffff Bibi

Efffff Hamas.

[iemanja]

6. Very few people, if any, here support Hamas

What they object to is the loss of civilian life on a huge scale. How is that difficult for you to comprehend? Is the idea that Palestinian civilians are human beings deserving of life such an anathema to you?

Your strawman argument rings false.