Hamas Using Hostages to Wage Psychological Warfare on Israel, Terror Group’s Leaked Document Shows

Hamas Using Hostages to Wage Psychological Warfare on Israel, Terror Group’s Leaked Document Shows

A newly leaked top-secret Hamas document exposes the terrorist group’s negotiation strategy and its ongoing phycological warfare against Israel.  The document, described as Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar’s “secret war paper,” was published by the German newspaper BILD on Friday.

Hamas is negotiating to survive the current Israeli offensive and regain its lost terrorist capabilities to stage future attacks on Israel, the document shows.

The Gaza-based terrorist group’s current negotiation strategy is to restore the “ability of [its] armed forces” to act against Israel. Israel should be “exhausted” and international pressure on country should be “increased,” the German daily reported, quoting from the document.

The aim of the ceasefire talks is to further Hamas terrorist aims — “ending the war is not a priority for Hamas,” the BILD added.

The secret strategy paper was found on a computer belonging to Hamas chief Sinwar and was personally approved by him, the newspaper noted.

The BILD reports (translated by the author):

Now a previously unknown document from Hamas’s military intelligence service shows how terrorists want to manipulate the international community, torture the hostage families and rearm themselves. Additionally, they do not care about a quick end to the war or the suffering of Palestinian civilians.

The document, in which Hamas explains its negotiating strategy, was discovered on a computer reportedly belonging to the 60-year-old  terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar. He is said to have personally approved the content. The letter dates from spring of 2024 and was made exclusively available to the BILD.

Hamas lists several key factors to be considered in the negotiations. They is intended to maintain the “ability of our armed forces” to operate against Israel. The Israeli political and military apparatus is to be “exhausted” and international pressure on Israel is to be “increased.”

Hamas is not seeking a quick end to the war which would help the people of Gaza. Quite the opposite: “key conditions [contained] in the agreement should be improved [in Hamas’ favor, added by the author], even if negotiations continue over a longer period of time.” (…)

Although Hamas admits that its “military capacity has been weakened”, it does not believe that a quick end to the fighting is necessary – despite the plight of its population.

The fact that thousands of Palestinian civilians were killed in the fighting [due to Hamas’ human shield tactic added by the author] is not mentioned once in the entire document.

What is particularly perfidious: Hamas abuses the kidnapped hostages in order to improve its negotiating position. The document states openly:

“Continue to exert psychological pressure on the families of the prisoners, both now and in the first phase [of the ceasefire], so that public pressure on the enemy government increases.”

Hamas repeatedly releases videos of the hostages, forcing them to beg for their freedom and criticize their government. After the murder of six Israeli hostages, the terrorists released videos showing the kidnapped Israelis.

Noa Argamani, too, was forced to record a video while being held hostage. She was freed from the clutches of Hamas by the Israeli military in the summer.

It is barbaric psychological torture that has only one aim: to make the relatives of the hostages so desperate that they will do ANYTHING to free their loved ones. Even if that means going against their own government.

Even during the ceasefire, the Palestinian Islamists want to use the hostages to put pressure on Israel. “During negotiations for the second phase [of the ceasefire, added by the BILD], Hamas will allow the Red Cross to visit some of the prisoners as a gesture of goodwill and to convey messages to their relatives.”

The goad, apparently, is to increase the pressure on Israel to extend the ceasefire.

Hamas also lists key demands on Israel, such as the release of 100 murderers and terrorists serving life sentences in Israel.

Several main points in the document address the question of how to manipulate the international community and promote the rebuilding of Hamas’s military power. (…)

There is talk of a “political maneuver”: Hamas negotiators should propose that “Arab forces be stationed along the eastern and northern borders” with Israel. But these only have one purpose: “The Arab armed forces should serve as a buffer to prevent the enemy from entering Gaza after the war is over until they [Hamas, added by the author] have reorganized their ranks and military capabilities. “

This means that Hamas, backed by Arab armies, wants to prepare for new battles. Israel is supposed to be the scapegoat.

Israel should be made solely responsible for the unsuccessful negotiations. Hamas’ message to the media should be that Israel rejected a deal brought by the United States. It must be made clear to the media that Hamas has agreed, but that the deal is failing because of Israel’s “stubbornness.” Hamas should not be held responsible for the failure of an agreement.

What is not in the document is also explosive: the “Philadelphi Corridor”, around which negotiations have been centered for weeks, is not mentioned. Hamas is currently acting as if its is their top priority.

Hamas document uncovered by German daily @BILD details terror group’s use of psychological warfare to stall hostage talks, up pressure on Israel.

“Continue to exert psychological pressure on the families of the prisoners, both now and during the first phase (of the ceasefire),… pic.twitter.com/lV5kVYID0M

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) September 6, 2024

The revelations come to light as Hamas releases the recorded messages of two out of six Israeli hostages, who were recently murdered by these terrorists. Hamas aired the videos in a depraved bid to torment the families of murdered hostages and to demoralize the Israeli people.

On September 1, the Israeli military recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of six hostages, including two women, inside a terror tunnel in Hamas stronghold of Rafah.

Israeli military preparing for offensive against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, IDF chief says

With Iran-backed Hezbollah ramping up cross-border rocket and drone attacks on Israel, the Israeli military is preparing to conduct operations inside the terrorist group-controlled Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is “preparing offensive moves in the territory” held by Hezbollah, the armed forces Chief of Staff, Lt. General Herzi Halevi, disclosed Friday.

The Times of Israel reports:

The Israel Defense Forces are “very focused” on fighting Hezbollah and preparing offensive actions in Lebanon against the Iran-backed terror group, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said Friday during a tour of the Golan Heights.

“The IDF is very focused on fighting Hezbollah. I think that the number of attacks in the last month, operatives killed, rockets destroyed, infrastructure destroyed, is very large,” Halevi said.

“The Northern Command, with all the IDF’s capabilities, is attacking many of Hezbollah’s capabilities inside Lebanon before they attack us, and at the same time we are also preparing offensive moves in the territory [of Lebanon],” he added.

The IDF continued hitting Hezbollah terror targets along the northern border with Lebanon.

Israeli fighter jets struck Hezbollah infrastructure and a rocket launcher in southern Lebanon's Qabrikha a short while ago, the IDF says.

The military says the launcher had been used to fire rockets at Israel previously. pic.twitter.com/1SorTXMQDr

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 7, 2024

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