Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible.
Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.
The similarity of the orders given to attack teams, along with videos posted by the attackers themselves, eyewitness testimony, and the scale of civilian killings in multiple locations—at least 1,000 in total—suggest that the massacre wasn’t a byproduct of the attack but a central objective.
I both think it’s plausible but weird. Doesn’t seem like something you’d need to write down.
“Hey, what were we supposed to be doing here again?”
I can’t even remember the last time I used a public bathroom in a developed country that did not have a sign reminding me to wash my hands.