Hamas war preparations one month before the October 7 atrocities

This week, Israel killed Hamas leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad in a targeted attack in Gaza. In the video shown here, al-Haddad is seen planning and participating in a full rehearsal of the October 7 attack, which ended up being carried out a mere three weeks later.

The video, which was posted by Hamas on September 12, 2023, contains many of the elements of the October 7 attacks, including the notorious white Toyota pickup trucks, coordinated rocket launches, attacks by sea with underwater divers, grenades thrown into buildings, RPGs, the takeover of an Israeli tank, the overrunning of Israeli buildings and murdering all those inside, and even the conquering of a mock Israeli military base called "Shaked."

The video, however, does not show the atrocities that Hamas committed, including rape, burning alive, beheading, and the other forms of torture that it had also planned in great detail.

Israelis continue to be shocked and haunted by how Israel's military intelligence could have seen this detailed planning and rehearsal that was openly posted on Telegram yet remained unprepared.