Egypt Daily News – Nearly two years after the world was rocked by Hamas’s brutal October 7 assault—dubbed “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”, a shocking new theory has emerged. And it may not be what anyone expected.
In a bombshell revelation, Egyptian journalist and expert on Islamist movements Maher Farghaly has suggested the attack was not only a strategic escalation, but a desperate, last-minute power grab by one man teetering on the edge of losing it all: Yahya Sinwar.
Farghaly dropped a stunning claim: just days before the attack, a covert plan was in motion to strip Sinwar of his political authority in Gaza. According to sources described as intimately connected to Hamas leadership, Sinwar was about to be replaced by a rival figure arriving from Turkey. The plan? Sideline Sinwar, limit him to military duties, and hand political leadership of Gaza to someone else.
But Sinwar, hardened and paranoid, saw it coming.
And what he did next, if true, is chilling.
Farghaly claims Sinwar told his closest aides he would never surrender Gaza, unless it was reduced to dust. In a jaw-dropping twist, he allegedly greenlit the October 7 attack just one day before his successor was due to arrive, throwing the region into chaos and forever altering the course of the conflict.
It was, according to Farghaly, a strategic ambush, not on Israel alone, but on his own party. A power move soaked in blood.
Farghaly’s revelations didn’t stop there. He described Hamas as a movement in disarray, torn apart by deep internal divisions. He said the group has failed to evolve from an armed faction into a coherent political authority, and is now split into warring wings, some loyal to Iran, others to Qatar, and a military wing increasingly influenced by extremist Salafi-jihadist ideology that has infiltrated the ranks of the al-Qassam Brigades.
Worse still, he painted Hamas as a shadow of its former self, estimating the organization has lost a staggering 70% of its power military, political, and popular.
But why cling so desperately to Gaza?
Farghaly’s answer is as ideological as it is dramatic: “If Hamas leaves Gaza,” he warned, “the Muslim Brotherhood project dies with it. There will be no resurrection.”
And now, Israeli intelligence has added fuel to the fire.
According to Maariv, documents seized following the targeted killing of Mohamrd Sinwar, Yahya’s brother and key military leader, contain a trove of Hamas secrets. Among them: a “jaw-dropping” internal document outlining the group’s rationale for launching the October 7 massacre.
The document, reportedly written in the words of Hamas’s own leadership, describes a radical belief that the attack would lead to Israel’s collapse. It also reveals the depth of Hamas’s coordination with Hezbollah, Iran, and what Israeli officials ominously call the “Ring of Fire.”
The implications are staggering. Was October 7 a meticulously planned blow to Israel’s security or a frantic, bloody act of self-preservation by a leader whose empire was slipping through his fingers?
In the shadows of Gaza, it seems the real war may not have started on October 7, it may have been brewing inside Hamas long before that.
