Drones, Colour-Coded Maps, Detailed Plan: Hamas Knew About Israeli Weaknesses, Secrets — Report

Despite the Israeli military being superior to Hamas militants in all terms, the Palestinian terror group's sharp strategy and resources filled with drones and maps helped them execute their plan.

Israel-Hamas War: There's no denying the fact the Israel surpasses Hamas in terms of military, artillery and everything it has to attack and defend itself, and yet Hamas breached through the border under Israel's nose leading a carnage. Israel retaliated to it threatening to turn Hamas regions in the Gaza Strip into "rubble". However, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has a mammoth task to understand how Hamas militants fooled Israel's defences. There'll be much for it once war gets over.

But, exactly how did it all happen? Well, nearly a year of planning aided Hamas' strategy.

A group of 10 gunmen from Gaza knew how they could find the Israeli intelligence hub and how they could get inside.

According to a detailed report in the New York Times, the men crossed into Israel and moved east on five motorcycles. Two gunmen on each vehicle kept shooting at passing civilian cars.

Around ten miles later, the men veered off the road into a stretch of woodland and dismounted outside an unmanned gate to a military base. The militants blew open the barrier with a small explosive charge. They then entered the base, paused to take a group selfie, shot dead an unarmed Israeli soldier dressed in a T-shirt and stopped. They pondered where to go next and suddenly, one of them pulled a color-coded map of the complex. They had everything required to fulfill their operation.

This was all recorded on a camera mounted on the head of a gunman. The New York Times report stated the details from the same camera footage and cited Israeli officials as well. The video gives chilling details of the Hamas' attack that led to the killing of over 1,300 Israelis and a hostage situation.

The men, after confirming from the map, found an unlocked door to a fortified building. They went inside to find a room filled with computers — the military intelligence hub. They saw two soldiers taking shelter under a bed and shot them dead. This was just the beginning.

Palestinian militants meticulously planned the assault. With the details of Israel’s secrets and weaknesses, Hamas and its allies shocked the Jewish nation to its core. 

As per the report, they used drones to destroy key surveillance and communications towers along the border with Gaza. This made several vast blind spots on the Israeli military. 

The men blew open gaps in the border barricades allowing 200 attackers to pour through at first which were then followed by another 1,800, officials said, as quoted by the NY Times. 

The men came on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, and overwhelmed at least eight military bases and attacked civilians in over 15 villages and cities.

 

Hamas' Plans In Kibbutz

Addi Cherry's texts give a horrifying account of sudden terror attacks by Hamas militants in Kibbutz. According to the NY Times, the militants were inside Cherry's home on the other side of an unlocked door. Her husband and their three children were hiding inside their eldest son’s bedroom. They were all listening to the gunmen walking around their living room.

"Please help us," Cherry texted a friend, as one of the assailants came closer to the bedroom door and grabbed the handle. It was only 6 in the morning when a burst of rockets from Gaza was what the family had begun their day with. 

An economist by profession, Cherry and her husband rushed with their children into their eldest son’s bedroom, which doubled as a bomb shelter.

Cherry recalls the early morning bombing as something like "always" but it later felt different because the rockets kept coming. Then came the sound of gunshots.

She left the bedroom only to see incoming Hamas terrorists. "Oh God, Cherry remembered her husband shouting. "amas in the kibbutz! Hamas in the kibbutz!"

Hundreds of Hamas infiltrators with guns, shoulder-borne rocket launchers and wearing the group’s green headband were wandering through the village fields, a very well-coordinated assault.

Some swept through military bases, others charged into residential areas ruthlessly kidnapping and killing civilians.

Cherry's family was panicking as their bomb shelter had no lock. They grabbed a chair and wedged it under the door handle — making it harder to open. They pulled a small cabinet and pressed it against the chair.

While they waited, they had no idea many of the troops in the village were already dead.  Now, the terrorists began going house by house, trying to find people to kill and kidnap.

"Please send help," Cherry typed into her phone. They forced the door at her house. Kept shouting and ransacking the house. "We are going to die," she remembered thinking, as per the report.

The couple put all their with against the cabinet while their eldest son stood next to the door holding an 18-pound dumbbell. 

Then the handle twitched. The parents began to push the cabinet. The handle continued to rattle. It stopped. 

The assailant walked away.

Hamas' Documents Shocking Revelations

The sudden attack left Israeli troops paralysed initially while Hamas continued to charge attacks at several areas across Israeli borders. 

Footage from the attackers’ head-mounted cameras, showed Hamas gunmen — from its highly trained Nukhba brigade — smashing through the barricades of several bases in the first light of the morning.

They mercilessly killed soldiers in their beds and underwear. They knew exactly where the communications servers were at several military bases and destroyed them, according to a senior Israeli army officer, as quoted by the New York Times.

The lack of numbers and destroyed communication set-up came as a blow to Israeli intelligence and military. In many cases, they were unable to protect themselves, let alone the surrounding civilian villages.

Shockingly, a Hamas planning document — found by Israeli emergency responders in one village — showed that the attackers were organised into well-defined units with clear goals and battle plans.

They had a specific target — a kibbutz — and the attackers were tasked with storming the village from specific angles. They had the idea of approximate Israeli troops stationed in nearby posts, how many vehicles they had at their disposal, and how long it would take those Israeli relief forces to reach them.

Also, some units had specific instructions to capture Israelis for use as bargaining chips "Take soldiers and civilians as prisoners and hostages to negotiate with, " the document said.