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Hamas Oct 7 memo shows meticulous plan to ‘end the children of Israel’
An Oct 7 memo written by the Hamas leader in Gaza instructed members to burn down entire neighbourhoods, stamp on soldiers’ heads and broadcast the attack to the world.
It was followed up with orders from Hamas commanders to “kill everyone you encounter” and “end the children of Israel”.
The six-page memo, found in a bunker by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was written in Arabic by Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader killed in Gaza in October last year.
Details were revealed in documents and intercepts discovered in Gaza and verified by the New York Times. They provide evidence that Hamas deliberately targeted civilians, contrary to their own claims throughout the two-year war with Israel.
It also shows how carefully planned the attack was, despite some asserting it was spontaneous.
It called for the fence separating Israel from Gaza to be bulldozed, and for combatants to “stomp on the heads of soldiers” as well as “opening fire on soldiers at point-blank range, slaughtering some of them with knives, blowing up tanks”.
“It needs to be affirmed to the unit commanders to undertake these actions intentionally, film them and broadcast images of them as fast as possible,” it stated.
“Two or three operations, in which an entire neighbourhood, kibbutz, or something similar will be burned, must be prepared,” the memo said.
Before the attack, a Hamas commander from Gaza City, known as Abu al-Baraa, told operatives near Kibbutz Sa’ad: “Document the scenes of horror, now, and broadcast them on TV channels to the whole world. Slaughter them. End the children of Israel.”
“Burn, burn. I want the whole kibbutz to be in flames,” a commander from a Gaza City battalion known as Abu Muhammed told subordinates around 10am on Oct 7 2023.
Another commander, Abu al-Abed, from the northern Gaza city of Jabaliya, said: “Set fire to anything.”
“Slit their throats. Slit them as you are trained,” a Hamas commander from a northern Gaza battalion told his men, according to an Israeli interception.
Another Hamas commander from a Jabaliya battalion, referred to as Abu Muath, told his fighters: “Kill everyone on the road. Kill everyone you encounter.”
“Guys, take a lot of hostages. Take a lot of hostages… It is essential that you bring the drone in so it films for the entire Islamic world,” he said.
One combatant was heard saying: “Now we are at the beginning of the kibbutz. We have wiped out those in it. There are settlers whom we killed.”
An expert compared the handwriting in the memo, dated Aug 24 2022, to Sinwar’s signature on a police document from 1980 and a note the Hamas leader wrote to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
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