BENNETT: HAMAS PLANNING ‘YOM KIPPUR WAR-TYPE’ SURPRISE ATTACK:

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett has applauded the IDF's success in locating and destroying a massive terrorist attack tunnel from Gaza into Israel, and warned of Hamas' continued motivation to launch a major attack. Bennett, who is also a member of the Security Cabinet, said Hamas' top priority was to carry out a multi-pronged, mass-casualty infiltration attack from Gaza into southern Israeli communities. "In the two years since Operation Protective Edge, Hamas was not deterred from re-intensifying its efforts. Despite the IDF destroying its entire attack tunnel capabilities - and foiling a massive planned attack against Israeli civilians - Bennett warned that Hamas had turned tunnel construction into a "national priority," and was investing massively in plans to launch an even greater attack.

"The time has come to internalize" the threat, he said. "Hamas' objective is to surprise us with a multi-front infiltration attack, including killings and kidnappings," he said, describing it as a "terrorist Yom Kippur War-type scenario." During the 1973 war, Israeli forces sustained serious casualties when Arab armies launched a surprise attack, capitalizing on the Israeli government's sense of complacency following its spectacular 1967 victory, before the IDF eventually recovered and pushed back to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Israel needs to prevent such a scenario recurring "at any price, and not to rely on Hamas being 'deterred'," he said. (Arutz-7) Pray according to scripture: "Keep me safe, Lord, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from the violent, who devise ways to trip my feet.” Ps 140:4