Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.
Documents exclusively obtained by NBC News show that Hamas created detailed plans to target elementary schools and a youth center in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa’ad, to “kill as many people as possible,” seize hostages and quickly move them into the Gaza Strip.
The attack plans, which are labeled “top secret” in Arabic, appear to be orders for two highly trained Hamas units to surround and infiltrate villages and target places where civilians, including children, gather. Israeli authorities are still determining the death toll in Kfar Sa’ad.
Found it: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HVGPAaCMFHJQsxEg9
Google says it’s a research institute but there are photos of kids on horseback?
Why target a lone school when theres like 15 more in a dense area 6 miles to the north east? Maybe too hard to get too?
Edit: might be a middle school? https://sites.google.com/a/sulam.co.il/daat_herum/home
Edit: or a high school of 100
I’ve marked what I believe is the only school in the immediate area in purple
Edit: There may be a second school, an elementary school, above the purple arrow, in the buildings with the blue “roofs” in the top right.
Probably easy target and sends a chilling message
Warning: serious armchair science going on in my comment here
I’m guessing this is most of it. Looks like a ~7 minute drive from the border. Actually, to avoid the radar marked on the map they probably came in exactly where I put that purple arrow.
Actually I’m saying kinda the opposite. There’s 4 schools 7 minutes south, coulda sent a bigger message.I’m piecing this together as we go. Ok so I checked the distance from Sa’ad to Sderot (30 minutes by car) and while doing so I noticed something.
There was a key on the map I didn’t understand “kibbutz portal”. Well if you were planning on driving from Sa’ad to Sderot the “kibbutz portal” is the road google maps tells you to start at.
So they probably started here, attacked Sa’ad and then took the “kibbutz portal” to Sderot
Edit: Theres 3 directions out, the purple arrow (25), 232 and the “kibbutz portal”. It looks like starting from the purple arrow would allow Hamas to push that town in the direction of the “kibbutz portal”. I’m not convinced 25 is open but I’m basing that 100% on the fact that google maps wont let me force the directions to take that road by dropping a pin
Given that Hamas launched this attack on a Saturday during Shabbat… sure looks like they were targeting schoolchildren at the school, eh?