{"id":11937,"date":"2023-10-13T14:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11937"},"modified":"2023-10-13T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:32:41","slug":"hamas-was-surprised-by-the-scale-of-their-own-terror-attacks-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11937","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Was \u2018Surprised\u2019 by the Scale of Their Own Terror Attacks: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;A senior Hamas official said the militant group was taken aback by the effectiveness of its surprise multi-front attack on Israel over the weekend, saying that leadership expected their incursions to be halted by Israeli forces. \u201cWe were surprised by this great collapse,\u201d Ali Barakeh told the Associated Press on Monday. \u201cWe were planning to make some gains and take prisoners to exchange them. This army was a paper tiger.\u201d An unnamed diplomatic source elaborated on Hamas\u2019 scuppered plans to the Middle Eastern news outlet\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2023\/10\/israels-netanyahu-has-little-choice-launch-gaza-ground-operation#ixzz8FvUiGP00\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Monitor<\/a>, saying, \u201cThey hoped to kill some Israelis, embarrass the [Israel Defense Forces] and return to Gaza with two or three kidnapped Israelis.\u201d Now, with more than 1,200 Israelis dead as a result of the attacks and more than 100 being held hostage, Hamas \u201care very worried,\u201d the source said. \u201cThey will face the entire Israeli army inside Gaza. That\u2019s the tragedy of their success.\u201d Ahead of an expected large-scale ground invasion over the Gaza border, Barakeh told the AP that Palestinian militants had \u201cprepared well\u201d for prolonged and total war.&#8221;<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hamas-surprised-scale-own-terror-200732767.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hamas-surprised-scale-own-terror-200732767.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; A senior Hamas official said the militant group was taken aback by the effectiveness of its surprise multi-front attack on Israel over the weekend, saying that leadership expected their incursions to be halted by Israeli forces. \u201cWe were surprised by this great collapse,\u201d Ali Barakeh told the Associated Press on Monday. \u201cWe were planning to make some gains and take prisoners to exchange them. This army was a paper tiger.\u201d An unnamed diplomatic source elaborated on Hamas\u2019 scuppered plans to the Middle Eastern news outlet Al-Monitor, saying, \u201cThey hoped to kill some Israelis, embarrass the [Israel Defense Forces] and return to Gaza with two or three kidnapped Israelis.\u201d Now, with more than 1,200 Israelis dead as a result of the attacks and more than 100 being held hostage, Hamas \u201care very worried,\u201d the source said. \u201cThey will face the entire Israeli army inside Gaza. That\u2019s the tragedy of their success.\u201d Ahead of an expected large-scale ground invasion over the Gaza border, Barakeh told the AP that Palestinian militants had \u201cprepared well\u201d for prolonged and total war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/hamas-surprised-scale-own-terror-200732767.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,552,1301,1545,194,108,115,158],"class_list":["post-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-conflict","tag-hamas","tag-invasion","tag-israel","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11938,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions\/11938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}