The Israeli military learned about the plan of Hamas to carry out an attack on the territory of Israel more than a year before the bloody terrorist attack on October 7, according to the New York Times with reference to The Guardian.

Israeli officials have obtained a roughly 40-page Hamas battle plan, codenamed “The Wall of Jericho,” which “describes point by point exactly the type” of the attack that has killed more than 1,200 people in Israel in devastating Hamas attacks. , writes the New York Times.

Hamas followed the plan with stunning precision. The document talked about rocket fire at the beginning of the attack, drones to destroy surveillance cameras and automatic machine guns along the border, and armed men who would enter Israel en masse on paragliders, on motorcycles and on foot – all of this. it happened on October 7.

According to the quoted source, the document was widely circulated among Israeli military and intelligence officials, but they rejected the plan as being too ambitious and too ambitious for Hamas to handle. It is not clear whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other dignitaries have seen the document.

The Israeli military declined to comment on the NYT disclosures, saying that “issues of this nature will be dealt with at a later date.”