Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.

Documents exclusively obtained by NBC News show that Hamas created detailed plans to target elementary schools and a youth center in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa’ad, to “kill as many people as possible,” seize hostages and quickly move them into the Gaza Strip.

The attack plans, which are labeled “top secret” in Arabic, appear to be orders for two highly trained Hamas units to surround and infiltrate villages and target places where civilians, including children, gather. Israeli authorities are still determining the death toll in Kfar Sa’ad.

      • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Smoking gun evidence in an active war zone should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

        That doesn’t mean they can’t be authentic, it just means you shouldn’t just assume they are at this point.

        And when Hamas claims to have recovered from a dead IDF officer the plans for a tactical nuclear strike, or chemical warfare in Gaza, that should also be taken with a grain of salt.

        Assume the majority of OMG LOOK AT THIS EVIDENCE type of information from the ground is being shaped, or fabricated, by information operation teams from one side of this conflict, or the other.

        That doesn’t mean OMG SMOKING GUN stories can’t be genuine, just that you shouldn’t automatically assume they are.

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          Hamas would never draw up plans and use satellite images!!!

          This u?

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            More like “Hamas would never draw up plans, print out detailed information about their plans on multiple sheets of A4 paper, and keep those detailed plans on them when they leave to execute them like some kind of video game NPC”

            What was I supposed to do here? pulls out map and detailed plans Oh yeah, kill civilians! How could I forget?