Kaufman’s New Book Details Hamas’s 3-Year-Old Invasion, Sinwar Nearly Succeeding
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Updated · The FP · Oct 5
Kaufman’s New Book Details Hamas’s 3-Year-Old Invasion, Sinwar Nearly Succeeding
1 articles · Updated · The FP · Oct 5
Summary
Three years after Hamas’s assault, Elliot Kaufman’s new book argues the attack came far closer to success than Israel had understood at the time.
Kaufman says Israeli intelligence had treated such an invasion as essentially impossible, a misjudgment his reporting portrays as central to Hamas’s breakthrough.
The book, "In the War Room," draws on nearly 2 years of reporting to reconstruct how Yahya Sinwar and Hamas exploited that misplaced confidence.
By revisiting the invasion through fresh reporting, the account adds context to one of the war’s defining failures and to the scale of the threat Israel faced.