The New York Times reported on Thursday, based on secret documents, that Israeli officials obtained more than a year ago a plan from the Hamas movement aimed at carrying out an unprecedented attack against Israel, but they considered this scenario unrealistic.

The American newspaper reported that Israeli military intelligence obtained a Hamas document containing about 40 pages that talks point by point about a large-scale attack similar to the one carried out by the Islamic movement on October 7, which, according to the authorities, left about 1,200 people dead in Israel.

This document, which was circulated in intelligence circles under the name “Jericho Wall,” did not specify a date for a possible attack, but it specified precise points for attacking cities and military bases.

The document speaks more precisely about a barrage of missiles and drones destroying security cameras and automated defense systems, followed by the crossing of fighters to the Israeli side with parachutes, cars, and on foot, elements that were at the heart of the October 7 attack.

However, “it was not possible to determine” whether the Hamas leadership had “fully” approved of this plan and how it could be translated into reality, as confirmed by an internal Israeli army document obtained by the New York Times.

In July, an analyst from the elite Intelligence Unit 8200 warned that military exercises conducted by Hamas resembled, in several points, the attack plan described in the “Jericho Wall” document. But a colonel in the military division responsible for Gaza ruled out this scenario, describing it as “completely imaginary.”

“I categorically refute the idea that this scenario is imaginary (...) It is a plan for a war” and not just an attack “on a village,” this analyst wrote in encrypted emails seen by the newspaper.

“We actually went through a similar experience 50 years ago on the southern front in a scenario that seemed imaginary,” she added. History could repeat itself if we are not careful,” she said, referring to the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

The New York Times reported that although the “Jericho Wall” document was circulated within the Israeli military hierarchy, it was not known whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government had seen it.