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.

  • blacksnow@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    It’s ironic that I find Hamas more believable than Israel. many people no longer trust the Israeli government

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    29 days ago

    They did kidnap a bunch of people and kill a load more, so they can fuck off.

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      29 days ago

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

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          29 days ago

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

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            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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              29 days ago

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

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                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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                  You’re aware the official policy of Israel is they take a man we take a family correct?

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          Yes and no. If it is framed as “Israel did it as well”, then yes it’s a whataboutism. But if it is framed in history, where Israel is the occupiers with overwhelming resources and has turned Gaza into an open air prison, then no, it’s not a whataboutism but illustrating a larger pattern of violence.

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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.

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      28 days ago

      My conspiracy is that it was really Israeli who attacked on that day and blamed it on Hamas. Because Israeli sure has used that day to commit genocide.

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    29 days ago

    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.

    I don’t think that’s the issue most people had with it, so I don’t see how proving you’re right about it would help.

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    28 days ago

    I’m kinda wondering what the goal is here.

    It’s mostly been suppressed, but there’s a good amount of footage from the day, recording it seemed like a priority. Like, here on Lemmy if someone could somehow avoid things getting removed and post the footage we’d just have someone saying it’s AI or just generically sealioning and then whichever opinion felt more unpopular would be suppressed, but we’re talking about organizations who can actually verify sources.

    My best guess is they’re hoping they find more bad stuff from Israel than Hamas, and that might be a solid play but I kinda doubt it. Most of the footage from the day of I’ve seen just make Israel feel kinda incompetent.