Published a year before Hamas' Oct 7. "Hamas intended to surprise Israel by initiating the simultaneous penetration of hundreds of terrorists into the country," he wrote of a decade-old plan of the Palestinian militant group which prompted Israeli forces to go to war in Gaza in 2014 to avert such an assault. But on Oct. 7 last year, Hamas militants executed their plot in a rampage in southern Israel, with one difference: hostages weren't taken into Gaza through tunnels but across a breached border fence.
RAMLA, Israel Published a year before Hamas' Oct 7 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's autobiography lays out a scenario that bears a chilling similarity to the events of Israel's deadliest day. "Hamas intended to surprise Israel by initiating the simultaneous penetration of hundreds of terrorists into the country," he wrote of a decade-old plan of the Palestinian militant group.