Jericho Walls Exposed: Evidence Mounts That Netanyahu Knew of Hamas Invasion Plans Years Early
Explosive new reports indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was briefed on Hamas’s detailed invasion plans as early as 2018, directly contradicting his long-standing claims that no such warnings existed.
A devastating new investigative report has emerged, suggesting that the blueprint for the October 7 massacre was sitting on the desks of Israel’s highest political and military leaders as early as April 2018. According to Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was presented with intelligence detailing exactly how Hamas terrorists planned to overrun southern Israel years before the actual onslaught occurred. These findings directly collide with the Prime Minister’s repeated public insistences that he was never briefed on the specific operational concepts used by Hamas. The report describes a sophisticated intelligence document that outlined a massive invasion involving thousands of fighters, raising urgent questions about why the political echelon failed to act while the threat was being refined and updated right under their noses.
The 2018 Warning
The heart of the controversy lies in a specific intelligence assessment circulated by the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s Research Division in early 2018. This document was not a vague summary but a detailed look at an "initiated offensive maneuver" being developed by Hamas. It warned that the terror group was preparing six battalions, approximately 3,000 fighters, to execute a large scale attack "deep into our territory." The plan involved overrunning IDF positions while simultaneously striking civilian targets in Gaza border communities. This document was reportedly distributed to a tight circle of senior recipients, including the military secretaries of both the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, the National Security Council, and the heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet.
Despite the blunt nature of the warning, senior officials who reviewed the material at the time reportedly judged the plan as "unrealistic." This dismissive mindset became the foundation of the failed "conceptzia," the belief that Hamas was deterred and more interested in governing Gaza than launching a total war. While analysts saw the terrorists building the infrastructure for the raid, they convinced themselves that Hamas lacked the actual capability to pull it off. This allowed the "Jericho Walls" file, which contained the evolving invasion blueprint, to be treated as a theoretical exercise rather than an imminent threat.
A Documented Failure
The paper trail appears to follow the Prime Minister's orbit through several key updates. Reports indicate that a later version of the plan, updated in August 2021, was added to the "Jericho Walls" file, and a November 2022 summary specifically referenced the document. Netanyahu has consistently maintained that he "never received and was never briefed" on these specific files until after the war began. However, the Prime Minister’s Office operates with a rigid documentation chain for all classified materials, meaning any state commission of inquiry will likely find a clear record of exactly what information entered his office.
The systemic failure extended beyond just reading the reports, it was a failure of leadership to demand action when credible intelligence showed a mass raid was being planned. A February 2025 military inquiry confirmed that the assumption that Hamas did not seek a full scale war went unchallenged for years, leaving the border communities vulnerable. As these 2018 documents come to light, the narrative of a "sudden surprise" is being replaced by a much darker reality of ignored warnings and a catastrophic reliance on technology over human intelligence. The revelation that the exact number of terrorists and the exact method of attack were known five years in advance has left the Israeli public demanding accountability for the silence that followed.