Hamas October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar believed Israel may reply to the invasion by utilizing nuclear weapons towards Gaza; a brand new doc that he wrote by hand on August 24, 2022, has been revealed to the general public on Monday.
This newest doc was disclosed by the Amit Terrorism and Intelligence Analysis Institute as a part of an ongoing sequence of rolling reveals of Hamas paperwork captured by the IDF throughout its counter-invasion of Gaza.
Prior paperwork revealed by the Amit Institute or the IDF in October 2025 or earlier had been additionally written by Sinwar and addressed related matters, with one even written on the identical day, however this doc goes into the nuclear weapons state of affairs in essentially the most depth.
In an overlapping doc, Sinwar warned that the window of alternative for attaining the shock impact of the invasion was six to 10 hours, throughout which Israel’s skill to launch a counteroffensive needed to be impeded.
Sinwar then added within the at present revealed doc that Israel would in any case mount a robust response, and he didn’t rule out the chance that it will use nuclear weapons.
“Protection plan: The enemy is not going to hesitate to make use of all of the means and weapons at its disposal, not solely via assault but additionally by different means,” Sinwar wrote within the doc. “It might even use a nuclear bomb. However first it is going to be shocked by the assault and descend into chaos. As a further precaution, a preferred operation ought to be organized to return to the villages and symbolically reoccupy them. This marketing campaign is a battle of life or loss of life, and there will probably be life, with Allah’s assist.”
Regardless of his concern that Israel utilizing nuclear weapons in response to an invasion was an actual threat, “he didn’t abandon his messianic imaginative and prescient and emphasised that it will be a ‘battle of life or loss of life,’ even when the worth was the destruction of the Gaza Strip,” wrote the Amit Institute.
The brand new doc additionally mentioned an invasion pressure of as much as 10,000 Hamas fighters for over 200 Israeli communities and IDF outposts, whereas later variations of the plan and the precise invasion concerned round 2,000 Hamas terrorists within the first wave, an analogous quantity within the second wave, and a disorganized further round 1,600 untrained Gazans within the third wave, for a complete of round 5,600 invaders.
An evaluation by the Amit heart included six paperwork considered by the Publish, displaying the development of Hamas’s secret plans 2022-2023 to systematically deceive Israel into complacency in order to shock the IDF through the October 7, 2023 invasion.
Though a lot is already recognized about Hamas’s deception, these authentic paperwork had not beforehand been considered by the general public and revealed a wide range of new items of shade within the puzzle of Hamas’s technique and ways.
One doc was from September 13, 2022, and was titled “Constructing a Strategic Deception Plan Which Will Be the Foundation for a Shock Assault by Hamas on Israel.”
