New details about the Hamas assault on October 7 were revealed by Channel 13 on Wednesday evening. According to the report, the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel had maps, that included among other things, the addresses of senior IDF officers who live in the Gaza border area. The terrorists intended to abduct the officers and bring them to the Gaza Strip. In one of the cases, terrorists had already reached the yishuv of a senior officer but security forces had already arrived there and eliminated the terrorists in a gun battle. The IDF published a new estimate on Wednesday that 3,000 armed Hamas terrorists entered Israel on Simchas Torah [with the original estimate about 2,000 terrorists]. The number does not include a mob of Gazan civilians who entered Israel in a second wave at about 11 a.m. In the battles during the first two days of the war, about a thousand Hamas terrorists were killed by soldiers, security forces, and civilians, and about 200 were captured alive. Dozens to hundreds of terrorists’ bodies are still scattered in the Gaza border area and the IDF hopes to finish evacuating them in the coming days (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)