Hamas wants to take us all for fools. Or at least, it’s counting on deceiving enough Western leaders to delay judgment and block action. The United Nations’ track record over the past year—including its months-long reluctance to acknowledge that Israeli women were raped during the October 7th massacre—gives Hamas reason to believe that strategy might work.
For years, UN officials and sympathetic media have amplified the terror group’s line that nearly all of the deaths in Gaza have been civilians. Now, Hamas is testing whether the same reality distortion can be extended to everything else—starting with the claim that it never targets civilians and wasn’t even involved in the atrocities that took place on October 7, 2023.
Speaking to Norway’s state broadcaster NRK this week, senior Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan denied what the world saw in live footage, CCTV, and Hamas’s own body cameras. According to him, Hamas has never targeted civilians, hospitals, schools, or mosques. He flatly dismissed the hours of footage...
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