JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hamas planned to reach a maximum security imprisonment facility in southern Israel during its October 7 surprise attacks, sources from the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip revealed to the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat Arab news site on Tuesday,
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According to the report, a squad of 23 “elite” members of the Al-Qassam Brigades were meant to attack Shikma prison in Ashkelon and if successful another Hamas squad would join them, but eventually they did not make it due to a “defect.” An apparent wrong turn which the terrorists took led them instead to Netiv Ha’asarah and then to the Sderot police station where they were eliminated in a fierce gun battle.
“The group actually set off towards Ashkelon and crossed the border, from the direction of the [Kibbutz] Yad Mordechai, and there it clashed with an Israeli force and killed a number of its members, but for a reason that is still unknown, the group deviated from its path towards Kibbutz [Netiv HaAsara],” one of the sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The report went on to describe an internal investigation which blamed a “guide” that was responsible for the group’s movements according to maps and a GPS assigned to him, which led the group towards the Kibbutz and later to Sderot.
“The plan to storm the prison was carefully drawn up and in sufficient detail,” the sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The prison escape plan was meant to start on the main gate with “explosive devices, anti-personnel and anti-armor missiles,” as well as attacks on guard points along the wall, followed by rocket bombings launched from the Gaza Strip toward the area, “when a signal was given by the group.”
In the end, the plan would have depended on prisoners being able to also carry out attacks based on the guards being distracted, with the goal of the prison break being a “mini version” of what happened on the border.
The Shikma prison is located in Southern Ashkelon, about 7 miles from Israel’s southern border.
The article states that terrorists ended up at
the Sderot police station “where they were eliminated by in a fierce gun battle.”
What in fact occurred was that they took over the police station, killing many policemen in the process. At that point the army decided to destroy the station with a tank shell, killing all the terrorists inside. The station was totally demolished and will need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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We don’t want casualties…. we need more rachamim. But this is the kind of nes that we daaven for: Our strength has nothing to do with it – Hashem Himself confused them in multiple miraculous ways. The unnatural reality, and statistical unlikeliness of this chain of events needs to be publicized!!