‘The sword is coming’: TV report quotes IDF email warning of Hamas invasion plans, days before Oct. 7

Channel 12 News shares quotes from an urgent warning sent by an operator from the IDF’s Military Intelligence’s Unit 8200, days before Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

The email warns that the intelligence establishment would likely not be able to give the military enough warning to prevent mass casualties and kidnappings in a potential Hamas terror attack, and calls for a plan to be put into place.

“This email serves as a blowing of the ‘shofar’ because the sword is coming — now is the time to warn the nation,” the messages reads, referencing a quote from the Book of Eziekiel.

“The ‘Jericho Wall’ plan is an operative, practiced plan, meaning that Hamas already has forces that drill these plans and know how to put them into action when ordered,” the email reads.

The message was sent following a detailed document put together by 8200 less than three weeks before October 7 that warned Hamas was training for a large-scale invasion of Israel, dubbed “Jericho Wall,” during which hostages would be taken en masse. The document was first exposed by Channel 12 in mid June.

The 8200 document, which was reportedly brought to the attention of senior intelligence officials, at least those within the Gaza Division, outlined a series of exercises by the Palestinian terror group’s elite forces who drilled raids on Israeli towns and military posts, including on how to hold soldiers and civilians hostage when back inside Gaza, and in what conditions they can be killed.

The email also stresses that a mass infiltration of terrorists from Gaza into Israel, as described in the plan, would be challenging for the IDF to control.

“If the plan is implemented – bitter and difficult fighting is to be expected,” it email warns.

Some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on October 7, carrying out a murderous rampage of unprecedented intensity and breadth that left 1,200 people dead and 251 kidnapped to Gaza. The IDF struggled to mount a response, with bases closest to the border overrun and the chain of command seemingly broken amid the chaos.