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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    1 day ago

    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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      22 hours ago

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