Hamas allegedly planned massacres in downtown Tel Aviv on Oct. 7, reports Israeli journalist

The Iranian-backed terrorist organization, Hamas, reportedly planned to carry out massacres in downtown Tel Aviv, as part of its Oct. 7 surprise invasion and brutal attack, according to Israeli journalist Ilan Kfir.

Israel’s nuclear reactor outside of Dimona, a city in southern Israel's Negev desert, was reportedly another priority target.

The seasoned journalist has released his latest work, titled “Gaza Division Conquered,” marking the first book to explore the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated against Israel by Hamas terrorists

Kfir maintained that Hamas had aspirations for even larger massacres in Israel, despite the unprecedented scale of violence executed by the group on Oct. 7.

“Today the picture is much clearer than it was on October 7,” he wrote. “Hamas was not satisfied with the phase one plan - but the test was if the phase one plan was successful, they would go on to phase two - and it was prepared with large forces ready on standby and prepared to set off at noon.”

 “At the heart of the plan was a breach in two areas, in the north as well as in the south and east, towards Dimona, which was singled out by the group as a very central target,” Kfir continued.

The report explained that Hamas believed their forces could reach the heart of Israel, including Ben-Gurion International Airport.

“The goal of the operation would have been a raid on Tel Aviv. They marked several focal points in the city that were expected to be crowded in the afternoon and evening in order to carry out a mass massacre in the city,” he wrote.

The journalist argued that Hamas leaders had to selectively recruit operatives who were fully aware of the Tel Aviv mission and accepted the suicidal nature of the operation.

“Whoever from Hamas was planning to arrive in Tel Aviv and the north would have been forces with the mental willingness to commit suicide, because they knew they had no chance of returning from there. It was a plan that was formulated and in very advanced stages,” he wrote.

Kfir noted that Gaza's Hamas chief, Yahya Sinwar, believed that a terror attack on Tel Aviv and Dimona would encourage Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, and other Iranian terror proxies, to join the fight against the Jewish state.

“Sinwar believed that if an attack on Tel Aviv and Dimona were reported in the news, Hezbollah in the north and the other terrorist organizations in Judea and Samaria would also attack. This is a diabolical plan, and if it had succeeded, the reality would have been many times worse.”

While much of the international community views the conflict as mainly territorial, Hamas’ charter explicitly calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.

In an interview last November, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad threatened that the jihadist organization would repeat the Oct. 7 massacres.

“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight,” Hamad stated.

In January, top Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal admitted in an interview that the violent attack “revived that dream” of wiping the Jewish state off the map.