The terrorist organization Hamas described its inhumane attack on Israel on October 7 in a document as a “necessary step” and a “normal response” to “all Israeli conspiracies against the Palestinian people”. At the same time, the Palestinian movement acknowledged in its first public statement on the attack that “some mistakes may have been made” in the “chaos” on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Some mistakes may have been made in the “implementation of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” due to the “rapid collapse of Israel's military and security system and the chaos in the border areas”, he said, in an apparent attempt to justify the attack that left 1,140 people dead. , in which not only hostage-taking and murders occurred, but also rapes and sadistic acts of torture, including against children. According to eyewitness accounts, children's heads were cut off, women were sexually abused and their breasts were also cut off. The terrorists also allegedly stuck sharp objects into their vaginas. During interrogations, the terrorists stated that they were tasked with committing rapes.
The Hamas document does not reveal which of these acts the terrorist group later classifies as “possibly some errors”. However, against all evidence, the terrorist organization denied deliberately killing civilians. “If there were cases in which civilians were targeted, it was inadvertently and in the course of the confrontation with the occupation forces,” Hamas said, claiming that the Israeli army and police killed many Israelis “due to their confusion.”
In its 16-page document, the terrorist organization calls for an “immediate end to Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip” and an end to “ethnic cleansing and crimes against the entire Palestinian people”. In the report, published in English and Arabic, Hamas also rejected all international and Israeli efforts to decide the future of the Gaza Strip after the war. It was said that only the Palestinian people would decide on the future of the Palestinian territory.
On October 7, Hamas militants and their allies also took around 250 people hostage in the Gaza Strip in a brutal and unprecedented attack on Israel. Around 100 of them were released under a ceasefire brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the USA. Most of them are still under the control of Hamas and other militant groups. They were demonstrated by the terrorists the previous week through a macabre “guessing game”. Hamas asked which of the three hostages shown was still alive, only to publish images of two dead bodies a day later and blame Israel.
In response to the attack, Israel is carrying out a military operation to destroy Hamas, which previously ruled the Gaza Strip. Massive airstrikes and a ground offensive are causing great suffering to the civilian population in the densely populated coastal strip. According to the latest figures from the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, more than 25,100 people were killed in the military operation. Israel has not yet provided any information about this. Last Sunday, however, the Israeli army announced that it had “eliminated” 9,000 terrorists from Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip.