Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib - "Hamas’s brutality on October 7 was the plan!"

 

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Hamas’s brutality on October 7 was the plan! Newly released documents from Hamas’s underground dungeons include a handwritten memo by Yahya Sinwar, the slain mastermind behind October 7, as reported on by the NYTimes and confirmed by Israeli authorities, reveal a disturbing picture that contradicts Hamas’s claims. The five-page memo (which I've read in Arabic), supposedly written in 2022, outlines Sinwar’s vision for inflicting maximal brutality on Israelis, including civilians, to create a new level of fear and unlock the potential of trauma in “the hearts and minds of the enemy.” 

This includes burning down kibbutzim, stepping on necks, stabbings and beheadings, taking hostages, and all the horrific attacks that we saw on October 7. Critically, for Sinwar, all acts of brutality that he highlighted were to be rapidly captured on camera and immediately broadcast to the world to ensure maximal efficacy and to achieve the intended propagandistic outcome that would revitalize and globalize Hamas’s armed resistance narrative. Additionally, he hoped explicitly that the violence would inspire Palestinians in the West Bank and inside Israel to rise and join Hamas in the battle, not to mention the entirety of the Iranian-sponsored “axis of resistance” to help accelerate the vision of the collapse of the Jewish state. 

What has been disturbing is that the terror group not only denied committing any atrocities against civilians despite broadcasting their footage to the entire world in real time, but they went on to accuse Palestinian civilians from Gaza of being behind the abuses that took place, alleging their terrorists would not do such horrible acts. Worse, large numbers of Palestinians still don’t believe that such horrendous atrocities took place on October 7, despite overwhelming video evidence of Hamas, not to mention the Western-based pro-Palestine movement, which is worse in denying that any atrocities took place. 

As much as Hamas has always been a horrendous terror organization, there was an exceptionally ruthless and barbaric nature to the October 7 massacre, unlike anything before it; October 7 was an entirely different chapter in which Hamas became an ISIS-like entity in its deployment of fear, terror, intimidation, and up close animalistic dehumanization that was truly different in scale and horror. 

It is one of the many reasons why I could never, ever be silent after that fateful day, in which my beautiful Gaza and people were shamefully associated with such barbarism. I did not need the NYT or the Israeli military to reveal what the whole world saw with our own eyes - shame on anyone who still refuses to believe that there were any atrocities on that day or that civilians were killed in the supposed “Hannibal directive” or “friendly-fire.”