Hamas has called on Israel to allow an impartial international investigation into its attack on 7 October 2023 and has rejected that it killed civilians or committed atrocities.

“The resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews. We challenge [Israel] to prove otherwise,” it said.

In the new document, Hamas said that “Western media and Zionist lobby groups” had launched a disinformation campaign about the events of the attack.

“The Israeli entity promoted a series of lies and fallacies about killing children and raping women, paving the way to proceed with an all-out genocide project that was pre-planned and aimed to erase Gaza from existence,” it said.

  • Madison420@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Yes cleary Israel has never done that or attack civilians and destroy their homes. Nope never, not once.

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        19 hours ago

        Violence begets violence. If someone shot at me I’d shoot back, wouldn’t you?

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          18 hours ago

          It doesn’t work as well at a national scale. If you shoot my sister, that doesn’t mean I should shoot your sister.

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            18 hours ago

            So then Israel killing 30k civilians for revenge is what exactly aside from a war crime?

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              17 hours ago

              It also is. It’s possible for two groups at war with each other to both commit war crimes against each other.

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        A justification cannot be won from a fault. If I steal your wallet then I cannot claim self defense when you take it back with force.