Hamas has created the impression that it is not ready to fight.
A carefully prepared and executed campaign of deception led to the fact that an attack by Hamas militants using bulldozers, hang gliders, pickup trucks and motorcycles, accompanied by a massive rocket attack, took Israel and its most powerful army in the Middle East by surprise.
The Guardian writes about this.
The publication's journalists write about the militants' plan to attack Israel. It is known that the plan was drawn up by several leaders. It was unknown to the people who were supposed to carry it out until the morning of the attacks on Israel a month ago.
“The first orders came at 4 a.m.: Anyone attending regular training and not planning to attend dawn prayers at their regular mosques should go and pray. An hour later, new instructions were issued. They were simple and passed down mainly by word of mouth: Bring your weapons and any ammunition you have and gather at certain landmarks,” the publication writes in detail.
However, no one was told what was going to happen. Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the most ambitious operation launched by Hamas since the extremist Islamist organization took control of Gaza in 2007, was secret. The Israeli military and intelligence services were also unaware of this.
The decision to verbally transmit instructions to thousands of Hamas fighters dispersed among Gazan's 2.3 million residents was the latest in a series of measures aimed at misleading one of the world's most powerful surveillance systems and preserving any information about what could have happened. happen.
“Only when the people gathered were additional ammunition and powerful weapons distributed to attack Israel,” the journalists added.
The breakthrough of Hamas militants into Israel from the Gaza Strip was the most powerful failure of the Israeli security system since the 1973 war.
But this was the result of at least two years of a disinformation campaign that managed not only to convince Israel that Hamas did not have the strength to attack and did not want war, but also to hide the plans and immediate preparations for the attack.
A source close to Hamas told Reuters that in one of the most dramatic elements of the preparations, Hamas built a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza where they practiced landing and assaulting it, adding that they even made videos of the maneuvers.
“Israel apparently saw them, but they were convinced that Hamas did not want to engage in confrontation,” the source said.
Hamas, meanwhile, has tried to convince Israel that it is more concerned with ensuring that workers in Gaza, a narrow strip of land with more than two million residents, have access to jobs and that the group is not interested in starting a new war.
“Hamas was able to create a convincing impression that it is not ready for a military adventure against Israel,” the agency’s interlocutor added.
Let us remind you:
The conflict erupted on October 7 when Hamas launched an offensive into southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people and took hundreds of people hostage. Current Israeli estimates place the number of hostages at 242.
On November 2, IDF ground forces broke through Hamas's front line of defense in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari believes the ground operation is going according to plan.
The report said the Israeli army had begun the final stage of the war against Hamas. IDF forces advanced on three fronts:
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