Robbery on October 7 - "New York Times" report: Israel is said to have known about Hamas attack plans for a year
According to a report in the New York Times, Israel had evidence of a planned major attack by the Islamist group Hamas more than a year before October 7. According to the report, there was an extensive exchange between Israeli authorities on a 40-page document codenamed "Jericho Wall", which outlined a Hamas battle plan. This is said to have resembled in every detail the attack that Hamas terrorists then carried out from the Gaza Strip at the beginning of October, the US newspaper reported on Thursday (local time).
Code name "Jericho Wall": Israel knew about planned Hamas attack
According to the report, the draft had already come into the hands of Israeli authorities "last year" - more than a year before the attack - and then circulated in military and intelligence circles. However, it was ultimately dismissed by the experts as too ambitious and difficult for Hamas to implement.
The document, which according to the newspaper was translated, did not contain a date for an attack, but described a precise methodical raid to overcome the fortifications around the Gaza Strip, capture Israeli towns and storm important military bases, including a division headquarters. According to the document, the plan included rocket fire at the beginning, drones that would disable surveillance cameras and automatic projectiles along the border, and fighters who would invade Israel en masse with parachutes, motorcycles or on foot - a plan that Hamas ultimately followed "with terrifying precision", as the newspaper wrote.
Military dismissed scenario as unrealistic
Three months before the actual attack, according to emails seen by TheNew York Times, an intelligence analyst in the decoding unit warned that Hamas had undergone training that closely resembled the "Jericho Wall" document. "I strongly disagree that the scenario is imaginary," she wrote to an army colonel in the Gaza unit. "It is a plan designed to start a war. It's not just a raid on a village." But the military colleague stood by his assessment that Hamas was incapable of actually carrying out such a comprehensive plan. "In short, let's wait patiently," was his response.
"There is no doubt that the October 7 attack was a failure on our part. Of course it was a failure," Israeli government spokeswoman Tal Heinrich told the US broadcaster CNN on Friday night (local time). Israel would investigate what had happened in detail and learn from it. When asked to what extent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew about the attack scenario or had read the documents, Heinrich said: "We will investigate. The Prime Minister has also spoken about this. When the time is right, he will say more."
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Despite having knowledge of a detailed Hamas attack plan, codenamed "Jericho Wall," which closely resembled the October 7 attack, Israeli military and intelligence experts dismissed it as unrealistic and too ambitious. The New York Times report revealed that a 40-page document outlining the Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip, complete with strategies like rocket fire, drone attacks, and mass invasions, had been circulating in military and intelligence circles for over a year before the attack, but was ultimately disregarded.
Source: www.stern.de
