Qatari state-funded network Al Jazeera aired a comprehensive special over the weekend profiling the life and terror activities of eliminated Hamas military wing commander Mohammed Deif, highlighting his central role in orchestrating the October 7, 2023 massacre while publicizing internal operational records of the terror group.
Throughout the retrospective, the Qatari channel reviewed every major phase of Deif’s decades-long career as the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Most notably, the broadcast revealed what it described as secret Hamas command documents detailing the preparations that immediately preceded the invasion of southern Israel.
According to the documents presented by the network, the final operational decision fixing the exact zero hour for the assault was established on October 5—scarcely 48 hours before the attack—during an inner-circle command assembly convened by Deif, Gaza terror chieftain Yahya Sinwar, and a narrow coterie of senior military commanders. The internal papers also contained explicit post-launch directives issued to Hamas operatives.
The command echelon laid out coordinated plans for tactical deception and diversion, directing both ground units and political leaders to execute misleading public and military postures to disorient Israeli surveillance. The files further ordered field commanders to trigger defensive readiness plans without delay once the assault began, explicitly instructing them to anticipate a swift and aggressive military counteroffensive by Israeli security forces.
The broadcast also aired archival surveillance footage captured by Hamas field reconnaissance cells, documenting physical segments of the border fence, IDF observation outposts, and civilian infrastructure inside Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the program detailed instructional material authored by Deif himself, demonstrating how he trained terror squads to ambush armored vehicles, identifying structural vulnerabilities on Israeli tanks and specifying which anti-armor munitions to deploy during close-range engagements.
The special broadcast again emphasizes the systemic operational and editorial symbiosis between the Qatari state media outlet and Hamas. Three years after the brutal cross-border slaughter, and following the physical elimination of Deif alongside the vast majority of Hamas’s senior military leadership, Al Jazeera continues to provide a sympathetic platform that memorializes mass murderers and disseminates propaganda footage celebrating the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust.