An encrypted document found in a vehicle used by Hamas terrorists in their shock attack on Israel showed they were tasked with massacring civilians and taking prisoners, according to a television report on Saturday.
Public broadcaster Kan reported that the document was recovered at Kibbutz Re’im, outside which at least 260 people were killed and an unknown number taken hostage at a music festival as the Palestinian terrorist organization launched a devastating attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip .
In total, Hamas’ combined land, sea and air infiltration on October 7 left some 1,300 people dead, most of them civilians in communities bordering the Gaza Strip, and 150 to 200 kidnapped.
The report said that orders included in the document included slaughtering all prisoners, codeworded in Arabic for “black,” and “bus,” to use the prisoners as human shields.
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Other code words – which the broadcaster said were apparently intended to be used by the terrorists to communicate with Hamas operatives who were not involved in the attack – included “military vehicle” for prisoner release and “civilian vehicle” for passing on the Numbers Captives were taken and reported “red” to report that Israel had captured members of the Islamist group ruling the Gaza Strip.
Some of the instructions contained in the document were reportedly not encoded, such as the order to burn houses, cars and fields.
Hundreds flee gunmen at a music festival near Kibbutz Re’im, October 7, 2023. (Used under Section 27a of the Copyright Law)
The report came a day after Kan revealed another document left by a Hamas terrorist in southern Israel instructing terrorists to kill as many civilians as possible when taking over Kibbutz Alumim.
The Arabic-language document instructed the terrorist group tasked with raiding the kibbutz to maximize killings, take hostages, fend off security forces and await further orders, the report said.
On Saturday, NBC News reported on additional documents seized from terrorists that showed extensive Hamas plans to target an elementary school and a youth center, kill “as many people as possible” and quickly move hostages from Kibbutz Sa’ad to Gaza bring.
The “top secret” documents reported by NBC included orders to two terror squads to infiltrate the kibbutz near Gaza, “search the Bnei Akiva youth center,” “search the old Da’at school,” “Collect hostages” and “kill them”. as many people as possible.”
Other orders included searching “the dentist’s office, the supermarket and the dining room,” an Israel Defense Forces source told NBC. “The level of specificity would make anyone in the intelligence field’s jaw drop.”
“I have never seen such detailed planning” for a mass terrorist attack, an unnamed IDF official told the network.
Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Additional, detailed attack plans were found for Gaza communities including Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz and Alumim, showing how Hamas gathered extensive intelligence on each Israeli community to be attacked on October 7 and gave clear instructions to target women and men Targeting Children Report.
The documents, combined with terrorist body camera footage, interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses, and first-hand statements from security forces and first responders following the devastation, indicated a comprehensively planned and coordinated Hamas operation involving targeted attacks and killings Civilians went. including women, children and the elderly.
Authorities and volunteers continue to work to locate and identify the remains of those slaughtered by the terrorists in Gaza’s border towns.
Troops collected items from bodies, vehicles and belongings of terrorists, finding things such as a flag of the jihadist group Islamic State on the vest of a terrorist killed in an attack on Kibbutz Sufa near the Gaza border, as well as religious items, documents and Brochures containing attack plans and schedules, as well as intelligence information such as the number of residents in a particular Israeli community.
An undated image of the Islamic State flag found on a terrorist killed in an attack on Kibbutz Sufa (Israeli Defense Forces).
After the massacres, Israel declared war on Hamas and has since bombarded Gaza with airstrikes, saying the country was targeting terrorist infrastructure and any areas where Hamas operates or hides.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry has reported that 2,329 Palestinians were killed and another 9,042 injured in Israeli retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces have also killed about 1,500 Hamas terrorists who crossed into their territory since last Saturday and captured an unspecified number of them alive.