{"id":109166,"date":"2023-12-08T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109166"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:50:18","slug":"14-05-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109166","title":{"rendered":"Hamas attack plans, including map of IDF base, suggest espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Hamas attack plans, including map of IDF base, suggest espionage<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

DAVID ISAAC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Hamas commander’s laptop included a detailed sketch of Nahal Oz, an IDF base located on the Gaza Strip fence.<\/strong><\/span>
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Israeli soldiers seen around the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023 in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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New documentation, including the laptop of a key Hamas commander, offers additional proof of the terrorist group\u2019s meticulous planning of the Oct. 7 massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n

The field intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces\u2019 Military Intelligence Directorate, known by the Hebrew acronym AMSHAT, released the documents on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The material provided to JNS by the IDF came from a laptop belonging to the head of Hamas\u2019 Nukhba Force, who took part in the attack. It was recovered in southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uploaded to the laptop was a notebook with detailed plans to conquer the army\u2019s Nahal Oz base adjacent to the border fence along the northern Gaza Strip.<\/span><\/p>\n

It included a hand-drawn sketch of the base, providing a visual representation of the strategic details in the notebook. The illustration, revealing accurate knowledge of the base, suggests Hamas had help from within.<\/span><\/p>\n

(An Israeli intelligence source cited by The Guardian said the map revealed \u201cinside knowledge \u2026 almost certainly from a Hamas spy.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sketch of the IDF\u2019s Nahal Oz base found in the Hamas commander\u2019s laptop. Credit: IDF.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to Oct. 7 many Arabs from Gaza entered Israel regularly for work (17,500 daily at the time of the attack), and a week after the attack, Israeli security services had already begun investigating the possibility that some of these individuals had passed information to Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Massacre survivors have reported that terrorists knew about their communities in great detail. Boris Volovik, a member of the 12-man security team of Kibbutz Nir Am, one of the few kibbutzim to mount a\u00a0successful defense<\/a>, told\u00a0Knesset TV<\/em>\u00a0on Nov. 16, \u201cThe terrorists knew where the armories were on every single kibbutz and where the military security coordinators lived.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Volovik said in nearby Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of his friends was killed when he approached the armory and was ambushed. The military security coordinator at Kibbutz Kissufim was ambushed at his home, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

While day workers from Gaza were employed in these communities, the IDF assured JNS that they were not allowed to work on IDF bases.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, according to Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, \u00a0founder and chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF), that\u2019s not quite true.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have Arabs working in bases, especially in construction, and certainly in towns. And I think that Hamas might indeed have gotten intelligence from construction workers,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

These Arabs may have been from Gaza, or from Judea and Samaria, or may even have been Israeli Arabs, he said. \u201cA company bids for a construction job. It\u2019s an Israeli company. But then they take subcontractors and the subcontractors are Palestinian workers,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avivi also doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility that out of the half-million or so officers and soldiers in the IDF, \u201cthree or four are actually spying\u2014cooperating with the enemy. It can happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The plans found on the laptop included instructions for securing Israeli hostages, such as, \u201cCover the eyes and tie the hands of all adult hostages (men and women)\u201d and \u201cKill those who cause trouble and anyone who tries to escape.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A list of \u201cImportant Words in Hebrew\u201d was provided for terrorists to communicate with hostages. It included such phrases as, \u201cGet down,\u201d \u201cDo not look back,\u201d \u201cWhere is the head of the kibbutz?\u201d and \u201cPut your hands up and spread your legs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(Hamas terrorists captured some 240 Israelis and foreign citizens\u2014138 are still being held\u2014on Oct. 7).<\/span><\/p>\n

Hamas terrorists at an IDF base on Oct. 7, 2023. Source: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The newly released plans underscore just how ignorant Israel\u2019s security forces were about the terror group\u2019s intentions and mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a press briefing at AMSHAT headquarters on Monday, IDF officers admitted that Hamas had been planning its attack for more than a year, confirming reports last week in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere that the IDF had plenty of forewarning, which it ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Times<\/em>, Israel had been presented with a 40-page document, code-named \u201cJericho Wall\u201d by Israeli authorities, which outlined a Hamas invasion in which terrorist forces would overwhelm IDF fortifications along the Gaza fence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision,\u201d the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Head of IDF intelligence Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva and then-head of the IDF\u2019s southern command Eliezer Toledano were presented with the \u201cJericho Wall\u201d document but did nothing, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a Hamas expert from the IDF\u2019s Unit 8200 and her commander, desperate to get their detailed information of an impending invasion to IDF higher-ups, waylaid\u00a0Haliva<\/a>, he dismissed their warnings as nonsense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IDF leadership had come to believe that Hamas was deterred, and that it had become pragmatic, more interested in ruling the Gaza Strip than waging war against Israel. This mindset was expressed by Haliva during a now-widely replayed interview at Reichman University\u2019s World Summit on Counter-Terrorism in September of last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haliva said he foresaw \u201cfive years of quiet in the southern arena\u201d after \u201cOperation Guardian of the Walls\u201d (May 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Gaza, I identify that alongside our military force and deterrence, the actions taken by Israel to stabilize the economy, allow in workers and improve the quality of life all have the potential to create years of quiet,\u201d he added, underscoring Israel\u2019s now clearly mistaken belief that Hamas was interested in improving the economic lot of Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n

IDSF\u2019s Avivi told JNS that one of the chief misconceptions by which IDF leadership operated, and which led to Oct. 7, was their concept of deterrence and belief that \u201cHamas will not fight if we give them some economic relief, trying all the time to connect the economy to what they do or don\u2019t do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Avivi said he\u2019s been trying to convince IDF leadership for years that a Marshall Plan, the U.S. post-World War II project to rebuild Western Europe, including Germany, with foreign aid, isn\u2019t appropriate for Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a general in the army, I told then-Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, \u2018The Nazis were completely destroyed \u2026 and\u00a0then<\/em>\u00a0they implemented the Marshall Plan. But [Hamas] feels hardly touched. And you think that you\u2019re going to appease them with money, or whatever? It doesn\u2019t work like that,\u201d said Avivi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked what Eizenkot\u2019s response had been, Avivi said, \u201cThese guys were completely off. \u2026Psychologically, people are looking for some sense of control. They want to feel that they control reality, and they cannot deal with the fact that they\u2019re simply not controlling anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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