The New York Times (Washington Post also) gets to do a piece on the operational and political plans of Hamas planning and then going forward with its Oct. 7 2023 attack against Israel…..
(Provided by Israeli Intelligence data gains)
Hamas tried in vain to get Iran to join them in their attack…
That did NOT happen….
Hamas DID consider what a attack would do politically against the Netanyahu Government…
They could have NEVER anticipate what would be coming their way…..
The Israeli War cabinet continues to send it’s military into Gaza and Lebanon….
But?
There is NO move to strike Iran directly…
The Israeli Defense Sec has had in-person meetings with US Defense Sec in Washington D.C….
There is a contest going on between Hezbollah and Israel on how far the IDF is operating in Southern Lebanon …
There HAVE BEEN IDF strike actions even in Central Beirut…
The IDF seems to be disregarding the safety of the UN Peace keepers on the Lebanese border..
Minutes of Hamas’s secret meetings, seized by the Israeli military and obtained by The New York Times, provide a detailed record of the planning for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, as well as Mr. Sinwar’s determination to persuade Hamas’s allies, Iran and Hezbollah, to join the assault or at least commit to a broader fight with Israel if Hamas staged a surprise cross-border raid.
The documents, which represent a breakthrough in understanding Hamas, also show extensive efforts to deceive Israel about its intentions as the group laid the groundwork for a bold assault and a regional conflagration that Mr. Sinwar hoped would cause Israel to “collapse.”
The documents consist of minutes from 10 secret planning meetings of a small group of Hamas political and military leaders in the run-up to the attack, on Oct. 7, 2023. The minutes include 30 pages of previously undisclosed details about the way Hamas’s leadership works and the preparations that went into its attack….
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Prelude to War
The documents provide greater context to one of the most pivotal moments in modern Middle Eastern history, showing it was both the culmination of a yearslong plan, as well as a move partly shaped by specific events after Mr. Netanyahu returned to powerin Israel in late 2022…..
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Courting Allies
In December 2022, a new far-right government took office in Israel, returning Mr. Netanyahu to power. Hamas leaders noted at a meeting the following month that they needed time to assess the government’s behavior, saying that Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right minister known for his provocative actions toward Palestinians, had already made a contentious tour of the Aqsa mosque compound.
The leaders predicted that the actions of the government “will help us with moving toward the big project” by attracting the attention of Hamas’s allies and bolstering support for their attack….
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In the end, Iran did not directly strike Israel until months after Hamas’s attack, and Hezbollah came to Hamas’s aid only on Oct. 8, after Israel had begun to restore control over its borders. Hezbollah continued to distract the Israeli military from Gaza by firing rockets into Israel. The confrontation led to an all-out war in which Israel assassinated Mr. Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders and invaded the group’s strongholds in southern Lebanon.
Hamas was more successful in its efforts to mislead Israel. In the early hours of Oct. 7, Israeli intelligence officers spotted that Hamas fighters had embarked on an unusual maneuver. But they dismissed its significance, concluding that it was a training exercise or a defensive maneuver.
“It is estimated that Hamas is not interested in escalation and entering into a confrontation at the present time,” read a top secret memorandum circulated by intelligence officers at 3:17 a.m., and later reviewed by The Times.
Just over three hours later, the attack began….
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Oct 12, 2024 – ISW Press
Lebanese Hezbollah is falsely presenting Israeli ground operations as a failure in order to degrade Israeli will and underscore Hezbollah’s own resilience in the face of massive Hezbollah losses since mid-September. Hezbollah claimed that Israeli forces have failed to take control of any tactically significant hills or ridgelines in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah asserted that Israeli forces have only advanced to the outskirts of Lebanese towns and are using propaganda images to misrepresent military successes. Geolocated footage and commercially available satellite imagery show Israeli forces are operating in the center of southern Lebanese towns, however.
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