2023-12-20 19:54:48
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The war between Hamas and IsraeldossierBetween relativization and outright negationism, many commentators dispute the fact that Hamas committed crimes, or minimize the number of Israeli civilian victims. At the cost of conspiratorial contortions, and despite countless evidence.
On October 7, Hamas, and subsequently other Palestinian factions, swept into Israeli territory, causing nearly 1,200 victims. At this time, the identity of 790 of these civilians is already known: 508 men and 282 women, including 37 minors (including 11 children aged 10 or under) and 126 people aged at least 65 (including 23 over 80 years), according to a count sent to CheckNews in mid-December by the Israeli National Insurance Institute (NIOI). Added to this are the names of more than fifty police officers and more than 300 soldiers.
Hamas has not recognized these crimes against civilian populations. In the first days following the attack, the movement attempted to justify the unjustifiable by refusing to consider as “civilians” those it considered to be participants in a permanent siege of the Gaza Strip. But this speech, made inaudible by the horror of the images and testimonies, quickly turned into a denial of the very existence of the crimes and the victims. In a series of interviews given to Western media in October, the movement’s spokesperson, Ghazi Hamad, repeated, against all evidence, that Hamas had not targeted civilians, only citing collateral losses linked to in the fighting against the IDF. When he was opposed to him, on the BBC, q
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