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.

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    But Hamas wants to wipe out the Israeli people

    Initially yes, but no longer.

    In their first charter in August 1988 Hamas stated that “Israel” should be “eliminated” through a “clash with the enemies”, but since the 2006 Palestinian Prisoners’ Document and the 2007 Mecca agreement, Hamas agreed to a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, which is an implicit recognition of Israel.

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      They still shout it today and still shout ‘from the river to the sea’ which is a a desire for genocide.