Top Hamas military commander claims October 7 attacks were never meant to target Israeli civilians as he breaks ranks to criticise terror group’s leaders ‘who changed the plan last-minute’ in extraordinary intervention | Daily Mail Online
A top Hamas military commander has broken ranks to criticise the terror group s leaders, claiming that its barbaric October 7 attacks were never supposed to target Israeli civilians.
In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the leader of a battalion of 400 Hamas terrorists claimed that the initial plan was to kill Israeli soldiers and take some troops hostage.
But he said that orders were changed at the last minute by Hamas political leaders which led to the savage rape, torture and murder of more than 1,400 children, women and men. Hundreds of Israelis were taken hostage back to I am one of the planners (of October 7) and we did not expect it to go this way, he said, speaking via the encrypted Telegram app last week.
Our leadership was speaking to our young ones saying go, do whatever you like, take whatever you like&You see and witness we have killed babies.
Us going there into civilian areas, taking 250 hostages, wasn t planned. They are civilians. Our plan was to take a few [military] hostages in return for our prisoners.