Documents obtained by the IDF during ground operations in the Gaza Strip continue to shed light on the thinking of Oct. 7, 2023, massacre mastermind and former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

On July 13, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center released newly captured documents detailing Sinwar’s plans for Hamas terror squads to seize 25 junctions, more than 220 Israeli villages, towns, cities and military facilities using a force of some 10,000 operatives.

The document instructed terrorists to “expel the settlers,” particularly women and children, kidnap men between the ages of 17 and 50, and included Sinwar’s assessment that Israel could respond by using “a nuclear bomb” against Gaza.