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The New York Times has just published the six-page memo written by Yahya Sinwar, setting out what Hamas operatives should do to the Israelis once they finally smash into southern Israel. It makes for instructive reading. Christine Douglass-Williams just wrote about this here, and more on the Sinwar memo can be found here: “Target civilians, record carnage: What Yahya Sinwar wrote in his 2022 October 7 memo – NYT,” Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2025:
A special army unit found a digitalized copy of former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s six-page handwritten memo, which explicitly called for the terrorist group to target Israeli civilians ahead of the October 7 invasion, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
After the assassination of Mohammed Sinwar, Yahya’s brother and a military leader of Hamas in Gaza, the memo was found on a computer that was not connected to any other network in an underground complex used by Yahya Sinwar while he was in hiding.
The letter, dated August 24, 2022, included directives written in Arabic to target both military and civilian targets, seven Israeli officials told the publication.
Sinwar instructed Hamas to broadcast October 7 atrocities
After viewing the letter, the American newspaper reported that Hamas was instructed to purposely broadcast the atrocities it was committing during the massacre to evoke fear and a feeling of instability across the Jewish state.
“It needs to be affirmed to the unit commanders to undertake these actions intentionally, film them, and broadcast images of them as fast as possible,” the memo read.“Document the scenes of horror, now, and broadcast them across TV channels for the whole world to see,” a Hamas commander from Gaza City called Abu al-Baraa instructed his operatives in the area of Kibbutz Sa’ad, according to a message intercepted by Israel.
“Slaughter them. End the children of Israel.”…
The 6,000 Hamas combatants who swept into Israel on October 7, 2023 and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 people and kidnap 251 more were not disobeying orders; they were following them. Yahya Sinwar instructed them to burn down the kibbutzim, to be cruel to all, but to be especially cruel to Israeli soldiers — we have all heard of the soldiers whose eyes were gouged out, and genitalia cut off — and to record everything so that it could be broadcast, in order to hearten the Palestinians and to terrify the Israelis.
In the end, the people of Israel were not terrified; 360,000 reservists joined the regular army; reservists and regular soldiers alike strapped on their weapons and put on their helmets and went to war, dealing Hamas such a series of massive blows from Rafah in the south to Gaza City in the north, from which the terror group will likely never recover.
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