Israel learned of Hamas' attack plan a year ago but ignored it

 Israel learned of Hamas' attack plan a year ago but ignored it

The American newspaper said that Israeli officials obtained information from Hamas. She planned the attack a full year before it happened, and she said that this appears in documents and emails that described the attack as the “Jericho Wall.”

The American newspaper "The New York Times" said: It said on Friday that Israel is aware of the plans for the attack that Hamas will launch on the cities, settlements and camps adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, but Israeli officials rejected the information provided to them and described it as "ambitious." “And then they ignored it.

The newspaper stated in a lengthy report that Israeli officials obtained information about Hamas. She planned the attack a full year before it happened, and she said that this appears in documents and emails that described the attack as the “Jericho Wall.”

According to the newspaper, the 40-page document precisely specified the timing of the attack and the extent of the damage that would occur.

The newspaper pointed out that the document did not specify a date for the operation, but described it as “a systematic attack to overrun the forts surrounding the Gaza Strip and take control of pivotal Israeli cities, including the headquarters of the division responsible for military operations.” Stripped." She also said that Hamas had implemented the plan meticulously

She added that the document obtained by Israel regarding the Hamas attack was widely circulated among the army and intelligence, but it was not clear whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or senior leaders had seen it.

She noted that Israeli officials concluded that if the army had taken the document seriously, “it would have succeeded in preventing or perhaps mitigating a Hamas attack.”

The document speaks more precisely about a barrage of missiles and drones that destroyed security cameras and automated defense systems, followed by the crossing of fighters to the Israeli side by parachutes, cars, and on foot, the elements that were at the heart of the October 7 attack. .

But “it was not possible to determine” whether the Hamas leadership had “fully” approved of this plan and how it could be translated into reality, according to an internal Israeli army document obtained by The New York Times.

In July, an analyst from the elite Intelligence Unit 8200 warned that Hamas' military exercises resembled, in several points, the attack plan described in the "Jericho Wall" document. But a colonel in the military division responsible for Gaza ruled out this scenario, describing it as “completely imaginary.”

This analyst wrote in encrypted emails seen by the newspaper: “I categorically refute the idea that this scenario is fictional... It is a war plan” and not just an attack “on a village.”

She added: “We actually went through a similar experience 50 years ago on the southern front in a scenario that seemed imaginary. History may repeat itself if we are not careful. In reference to the 1973 Yom Kippur War

The New York Times reported that although the “Jericho Wall” document was circulated within the Israeli military hierarchy, it is not known whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government had seen it or not.