The Hamas terrorist group wanted Hezbollah and Iran to join in the deadly October 7 massacre in Israel last year, new documents revealed.
The Palestinian militant group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, was planning to carry out the attack in the fall of 2022, known internally as “the big project,” documents obtained by the New York Times show.
He “played dead” to ensure Israel was taken by surprise, and Sinwar told senior officials they “must keep the enemy convinced that Hamas in Gaza wants calm.”
But during that time, he trained his fighters and pressured his allies to fight on October 7.
In July 2023, Sinwar sent a senior member to Lebanon to meet with an Iranian commander and ask Tehran for help in attacking Israeli targets.
The Hamas member reported that while Iran and Hezbollah were interested in doing this, they needed more time to prepare.
The leader of the Palestinian militant group, Yahya Sinwar (pictured), was planning to carry out the attack in autumn 2022.
Hezbollah was invited to join the attack.
The Iranian military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also favored the attack.
This contradicts intelligence shared by the United States that indicated Iranian leaders were surprised by the attack, as well as Iran’s denials that it had any role in the attack that killed about 1,200 people.
It comes after it was revealed that Hamas was planning to bomb a pair of Tel Aviv towers in a 9/11-style atrocity as part of an invasion of Israel.
A chilling 36-page document drawn up by the terrorist group reveals detailed plans to attack Israel by land, sea and air, and bomb three of Israel’s tallest skyscrapers in a 9/11-style attack that would “create a crisis without precedents for the enemy.” similar to the World Trade Center crisis in New York.
The plan, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, details how Hamas intended to mobilize the Palestinian population to attack Israel and achieve “victory, striking fear in the hearts of our enemies.”
The file was discovered by the Israeli military on the computer hard drive of a Hamas leader during a raid on the Bader base near Gaza City last November, a month after the terrorist attacks.
Israeli security officials said it was likely written in September 2022, a year before the Oct. 7 attack, which left nearly 1,200 victims dead. They said they believed it was a genuine Hamas document.
Hamas planned a full invasion of Israel on a much larger scale than the October 7 terrorist attacks, according to Israeli security officials, including a plot to blow up the three towers of the Azrieli Center (pictured).
Pictured: An excerpt from a secret blueprint discovered by the IDF detailing how Hamas intended to mobilize the Palestinian population to attack Israel.
The invasion plan begins with terrorists entering Israel through the northern front, but penetrating only 12 miles into Israeli territory to deceive the IDF into thinking that it is a single attack.
Then, as the IDF focuses on the Lebanese border to the north, all of Israel would be attacked with a barrage of Hamas rockets from the Gaza Strip, as well as the West Bank and Lebanon.
The plan then describes how terrorist cells inside Israel would detonate bombs in the parking lots of three of Tel Aviv’s tallest skyscrapers, known as the Azrieli Center. The towers, of 48, 46 and 42 floors, have a shopping center on the lower floors and below which there are underground parking spaces.
The newspaper says the cells “would booby trap the cars with a quantity of explosives that could blow up the towers.” He adds that the bombs would also collapse the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters located next to them.
The newspaper says: “If these towers were destroyed in any way, it would create an unprecedented crisis for the enemy, similar to the World Trade Center crisis in New York.”
The Arab newspaper calls Hamas fighters “leaders of the (Muslim) nation and bearers of the flag of Islam,” and tells them to “liberate Jerusalem” and “dishonor the children of Israel.”
The document – titled ‘Appropriate strategy to build a plan to liberate Palestine’ – says that an attack by land, sea and air must begin on Israel’s northern front, on the border with Lebanon.
The document adds that 9/11-style scenes in central Israel would produce “images of victory,” encouraging ordinary Palestinians to take up arms.
