Hamas’ October 7 massacre aimed to torpedo the efforts of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal Reported, citing the transcriptions of the Hamas meetings found by the FDI.
THE Wsj reported that the head of the Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, feared that the normalization efforts of the United States between the United States between Saudi Arabia and Israel will withdraw attention to advance the concept of a Palestinian state.
According to documents, Sinwar said that there was “no doubt that the Saudi normalization agreement progressed considerably” and that such an agreement “will open the door to the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path”.
In the months preceding Hamas’ attack in 2023 against southern Israel, the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia all suggested that the differences were shrinking between Riyadh and Jerusalem.
Sinwar would have planned the attack “to cause a major decision or a strategic change … The region concerning the Palestinian cause”, demonstrate the documents cited by the WSJ.
The WSJ reports that on October 7 in progress for months
THE Wsj said that the Hamas invasion plan has been underway for months.
He added that Sinwar was planning to obtain aid from other forces supported by Iran. THE Wsj had previously pointed out that Iran had approved the attack at a meeting of October 2 with the body of the Islamic revolutionary guard and the officials of Hezbollah and Hamas.
Some high members of Hamas and Hezbollah have challenged this report, saying that the details of the massacre were held under Wraps by only terrorist groups.
THE Wsj Note that he had sent Hamas documents to Arab intelligence officials, who said the documents were credible and seemed authentic.
IRGC and Hamas and Hezbollah officials have planned an attack on Israel since 2021. Iran gave Hamas Financial Backing and in combat in the weeks preceding the massacre, according to the report, citing intelligence documents from several countries.
However, Hezbollah and Iran have told Hamas that they did not want the attack to lead to a total war with Israel.
Since the attack, Israel has killed several senior officials from Hamas and Hezbollah responsible for the attack and the multifice war that followed Israel, notably Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Marwan Issa (who was present at the meeting of October 2) and Hassan Nasrallah.
The FDI targeted Yahya Sinwar’s brother Mohammed, in an assassination attempt on Tuesday. Although the Arab media reported that his body had been found in a tunnel in Gaza, the army did not confirm that it had been killed.
In addition, among the documents seized by the FDI in Gaza, there was a 2023 Hamas report which recommended an intensification of violence in the West Bank to further complicate standardization efforts, the Wsj reported.
“It has become the duty of the movement to reposition itself to … preserve the survival of the Palestinian cause in the face of the wide wave of normalization by the Arab countries, which mainly aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause”, reads an internal internal briefing in 2022 marked “secret”.
After more than 500 days of war, the Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman said that he would not sign a normalization agreement with Israel unless the war in Gaza ends and a diplomatic process agreed for the Palestinian state begins.
