Hamas October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar believed Israel might respond to the invasion by using nuclear weapons against Gaza, according to a new document that he wrote by hand on August 24, 2022, now revealed to the public.

This document was disclosed as part of an ongoing series of rolling reveals of Hamas documents captured during the counter-invasion of Gaza.

Prior documents also written by Sinwar addressed similar topics, with one even written on the same day, but this document goes into the nuclear weapons scenario in the most depth.

Israel would, in any case, mount a powerful response

In an overlapping document, Sinwar warned that the window of opportunity for achieving the surprise effect of the invasion was six to ten hours, during which Israel's ability to launch a counteroffensive had to be impeded.

Sinwar then added in the currently revealed document that Israel would in any case mount a powerful response, and he did not rule out the possibility that it would use nuclear weapons.

Defense plan: The enemy will not hesitate to use all the means and weapons at its disposal, not only through attack but also by other means, Sinwar wrote in the document. It may even use a nuclear bomb. But first it will be surprised by the attack and descend into chaos. As an additional precaution, a popular operation should be organized to return to the villages and symbolically reoccupy them. This campaign is a battle of life or death, and there will be life, with Allah's help.

Despite his concern that Israel using nuclear weapons in response to an invasion was a real risk, he did not abandon his messianic vision and emphasized that it would be a battle of life or death, even if the price was the destruction of the Gaza Strip.

Secret Hamas internal documents

The new document also discussed an invasion force of up to 10,000 Hamas fighters for over 200 Israeli communities and IDF outposts, whereas later versions of the plan and the actual invasion involved around 2,000 Hamas terrorists in the first wave, a similar number in the second wave, and a disorganized additional around 1,600 untrained Gazans in the third wave, for a total of around 5,600 invaders.

Systematically deceiving Israel into complacency

On June 18, new secret Hamas internal documents were provided exclusively.

An analysis included six documents showing the progression of Hamas's secret plans 2022-2023 to systematically deceive Israel into complacency so as to surprise the IDF during the October 7, 2023 invasion.

Although much is already known about Hamas's deception, these original documents had not previously been viewed by the public and revealed a variety of new pieces of color in the puzzle of Hamas's strategy and tactics.

One document was from September 13, 2022, and was titled Building a Strategic Deception Plan Which Will Be the Basis for a Surprise Attack by Hamas on Israel.