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.
crown says
Sinwar is a true ideological heir of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem during a large part of the British Mandate.
Anyone who has read about the latter, a figure of monstrous and bone-chilling evil, can see the same incarnate hatred and cruelty in Sinwar.
May both of them enjoy their eternity roasting in hellfire!
Wellington says
Your comparison, crown, is an apt one.
gravenimage says
+1
Wellington says
Bottom line: Hamas members are simply superb Muslims. First rate and all that. Conclude accordingly.
Holy Hell, what will it take for humanity to properly characterize Islam for the monstrous and evil ideology that it is? Yes, what will it take?
Perhaps Islam will forever escape proper description. It has so far by the bulk of mankind. If so, ominous and then some for humanity and especially for the West where liberty was developed far more so than with any other civilization and which under utter fools like Pope Francis, Pope Leo, Keir Starmer, Tony Blair (and, OMG, this turkey is making a comeback in Gaza). Angela Merkel, the risible new fool who is Archbishop of Canterbury, virtually the entire Democratic Party of the USA, Trudeau, Carney, et al. have made excuse after excuse for the very ideology which is a mortal enemy of what the West did best, i.e., explore the parameters and dimensions of freedom. OMG—and this stated by an agnostic.
Much more trouble ahead. Guaranteed.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
AGall says
I’ve been wondering something very similar: when will the west ban Islamists and extreme preachers of this awful religion. Successful Muslim countries do not have a terrorism problem. Only the west. It’s time to get tough on terror and Islam. This should include restrictions on mosques in the west, banning the burqa and hijab, outlawing shariah law and polygamy, coming down hard on sexual inequality. It should be made very difficult for Islamists to settle in the west and they should be forced to assimilate or leave. We are too nice to them.
somehistory says
“Document the scenes of **horror**.” He knew, and they knew, what they were going to do, and what they did was **horrible,** and **Horrific**
He wanted as much fear and disgust as his army of ghouls could create while expressing their cruel hatred…even for small children and tiny babies.
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.”
Those showing hearts dedicated to evil, will feel that fear when God brings His Judgment against them for the things they did to innocent people.
gravenimage says
Yahya Sinwar’s Memo for October 7, 2023: Kill as Cruelly as You Can, and Record It
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Grimly true. Yet Hamas apologists constantly claim that they never killed anyone on 10/7. Just grotesque.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thankfully, he is dead. Hopefully, Hamas is so weakened that other groups like islamic jihad & so on can battle them for control
gravenimage says
I hope so, Infidel–but Hamas has been executing those supporting rival Jihad terror groups.
Rick Gordon says
I wonder how long the NYT knew about or had access to this information and decided NOT to publish it as it would have gone against their anti-Israel stance.
skeptiker says
Keiner der Hamas-Terroristen darf in Gaza überleben. Bringt es zu Ende.
Billy says
Islam’s Muslims are children of the serpent; so, those words are not surprising when you watch Muslim television broadcasts or writings. Demonic Allah in Quran 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], DO NOT TAKE the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”
Allah’s hellacious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until Non-Muslims surrender to Muslim rule and become Muslims when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah commands Muslims to conquer and subjugate every territory for Islam using every tool available with their MONEY and with their LIVES wielding the power of the Government or the State. Hence, Islam and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Westerners via Governments, Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 8:60; 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 65:4 etc.). Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Quran 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
MUSLIM BELIEVERS are a greater TERROR than Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
OLD GUY says
Sinwar, or is it Sin War which is more fitting. Just a disgusting example of a human being.