Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman wrote a document in 2016 and it was published by Yedioth Ahronoth. The document proposes, the possibility of a terror attack of tremendous proportions by Hamas and, in fact, foresaw the events of the October 7th massacre.
Liberman wrote in the 11-page paper how, from his impression, Hamas was preparing for a conflict with Israel. Among other things, he noted that the organization intended to use military forces to capture communities in the Gaza envelope with the objective of taking hostages.
The document was passed to all security and diplomatic officials, but the IDF Chief of Staff at the time, Minister Gadi Eisenkot, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not think of it as a highly feasible scenario.
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