Posted on 12/30/24
| News Source: Times of Israel
Jerusalem, Israel - Dec. 30, 2024 - Hamas was monitoring local Israeli leaders, security officers, and individual communities near the border with the Gaza Strip for at least seven years before carrying out its brutal October 7, 2023, massacre, a television news report revealed on Sunday evening, airing for the first time surveillance camera footage and sensitive documents seized from computers used by the terror group.
Among the material showcased in the Channel 12 news report, one document dated November, 2020, showed that Hamas had the IP addresses and serial numbers of all of the security cameras in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and the Ashkelon beach areas, including Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the worst-hit communities on October 7.
Another document featured in the report showed a semiofficial list of security guards working in the Sha’ar Hanegev area, with their phone numbers, including those from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Kibbutz Nahal Oz and Kibbutz Mefalsim.
In a particularly grim finding, the report showed six pages of case files on each community with assessments of the status of the attack plan for each, which the terror group eventually put into action on October 7, 2023, sending some 3,000 terrorists across the border into Israel. Some 1,200 people were murdered and 251 hostages were taken to Gaza by terrorists that day.
The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — including babies, children, and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 360 people were slaughtered at an outdoor music festival, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.