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Seized Hamas Documents Outline Its Strategy to Destroy Israel
(Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center) Dr. Uri Rosset - The idea that the very existence of Israel is illegal and immoral has been ingrained in Hamas's worldview since its founding. In May 2021, Hamas came to believe that the destruction of Israel had become a goal that could actually be achieved, according to Hamas documents taken from Gaza during the war. The severe blow suffered by Hamas pushes back the plan to destroy Israel, but if Hamas recovers and receives support from Iran, the movement could once again regard destroying Israel as a practical plan. In the television series "The Fist of the Free," produced by Hamas for Ramadan in April 2022, an invasion of Israel was depicted in a manner similar to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The character resembling Hamas military leader Muhammad al-Deif stated: "The balance of power has shifted. Today, we will invade them and not the other way around." It will be "a decisive moment in history, a day the enemy will never forget until they are annihilated." Saleh al-'Arouri, deputy head of Hamas's political bureau, stated in interviews in August 2023: "A full-scale war has become inevitable. We all recognize its necessity. We want it, the resistance axis, the Palestinians, our nation, we all want it. This is not just something we say in the media. We discuss it behind closed doors....We are convinced we are capable of it."