Hamas ‘wanted Iran and Hezbollah to join October 7 attacks’ on Israel and ‘played dead’ so the IDF would think they wanted peace before terrorist assault

Terror group Hamas wanted Hezbollah and Iran to take part in last year’s deadly October 7 massacre in Israel, new documents have revealed.

The leader of the Palestinian militant group, Yahya Sinwar, planned to carry out the attack in the fall of 2022, known internally as “the big project,” according to the documents obtained by the New York Times.

It “played dead” to ensure Israel was taken by surprise, with Sinwar telling top officials to “keep the enemy convinced that Hamas wants calm in Gaza.”

But during that time it trained its fighters and lobbied its allies to fight on October 7.

In July 2023, Sinwar sent a senior member to Lebanon to meet an Iranian commander and request Tehran’s assistance in attacking Israeli targets.

The Hamas member reported that Iran and Hezbollah were eager to do this, but they needed more time to prepare.

This contradicts intelligence shared by the US showing that Iranian leaders were surprised by the attack, as well as Iran’s denials that the country played a role in the attack that killed about 1,200 people.

It comes after it emerged that Hamas was planning to bomb a pair of Tel Aviv towers in a 9/11-style atrocity as part of an invasion of Israel.

A chilling 36-page document produced by the terror group reveals detailed plans to attack Israel on land, sea and air and bomb three of Israel’s tallest skyscrapers in a 9/11-style attack that “a would create an unprecedented crisis for the enemy’. comparable to the World Trade Center crisis in New York’.

The blueprint, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, details how Hamas planned to mobilize the Palestinian population to attack Israel to “bring victory and defeat fear in the hearts of our enemies.”

The file was discovered by the Israeli military on a Hamas leader’s hard drive during an attack on the Bader base near Gaza City last November – a month after the terror attacks.

Israeli security officials said it was likely written in September 2022, a year before the October 7 attack that left nearly 1,200 victims. They said they believed it was a genuine Hamas document.

The invasion plan begins with terrorists entering Israel through the northern front, but only pushing 12 miles into Israeli territory to deceive the IDF into thinking it is just a single attack.

If the IDF then targets the Lebanese border in the north, all of Israel would be bombarded with a barrage of Hamas rockets from the Gaza Strip, as well as from the West Bank and Lebanon.

The plan then outlines how terrorist cells within Israel would detonate bombs in the parking garages of three of Tel Aviv’s tallest skyscrapers, known as the Azrieli Center. The towers – with 48, 46 and 42 floors – have a shopping center on the lower floors, including underground parking garages.

The newspaper said the cells would “booby trap the cars with a quantity of explosives that could blow up the towers.” It adds that the bombs would also collapse the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters next door.

The paper says, “If these towers were destroyed in any way, it would create an unprecedented crisis for the enemy, comparable to New York’s World Trade Center crisis.”

The Arab newspaper calls Hamas fighters the ‘leaders of the [Muslim] Nation, and the raisers of the banner of Islam,” telling them to “liberate Jerusalem” and “disgrace the children of Israel.”

The document – ​​titled the ‘Appropriate Strategy for Building a Plan to Liberate Palestine’ – says an attack by land, sea and air should begin on Israel’s northern front, bordering Lebanon.

The document adds that 9/11-style scenes in the middle of Israel would provide “images of victory” that would encourage ordinary Palestinians to take up arms.