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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible.

Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.

The similarity of the orders given to attack teams, along with videos posted by the attackers themselves, eyewitness testimony, and the scale of civilian killings in multiple locations—at least 1,000 in total—suggest that the massacre wasn’t a byproduct of the attack but a central objective.

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[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

This order would be in line with their founding charter. From article 7:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Of course it wasn't a byproduct, but a central objective. It's even one core reason why Hamas exists at all!

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Can we get some "religion of peace" folks in to walk us through this?

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