Hamas has made detailed attack plans for years with the help of spies
The Guardian
The sheer volume of information seized from Hamas fighters exposes the IDF's failure to detect the signals
Hamas was engaged for years in planning and drawing detailed maps with the help of spies inside Israel before the October 7 attack.. This is what the IDF came to after examining huge amounts of phones, laptops and documents seized from militants on the battlefield and in the Gaza envelope.
The fighters also carried manuals on how to take hostages and phrasebooks from Arabic to Hebrew, one of which included the phrase "raise your hands and spread your legs". The document was included in the cache of materials published by the IDF's amashat military intelligence unit on Monday.
🔴 A senior Israeli officer said that the goal of amshat, which was re-established after October 7, is to understand Hamas ' "offensive and defensive plans"*, obtain operational intelligence and better understand its doctrine after the IDF was surprised by a Hamas raid in which 1,200 soldiers were killed . He killed and took 300 hostages.
The latest revelations underscore how little the powerful Israeli security establishment understood of Hamas ' capabilities before the attack and the sheer amount of signs or clues that were ignored.
