Hamas is not a terrorist but a resistance group. It hasn’t blindly killed large numbers of innocent civilians, despite Israel’s atrocity propaganda.

October 7 wasn’t a terrorist attack although some innocent […] civilians died, in so far as a population which is highly militarised and integrated into the army can ever be described as innocent. Despite the lurid stories of 40 Beheaded Babies, it turned out that just one […] baby died and that was accidental, a bullet through a window.

The organisation responsible for spreading much of this atrocity propaganda, Zaka, an ultra-orthodox NGO, was later revealed in Ha’aretz to be in a precarious financial health and to have tried to take advantage of the tragedy to garner donations. Before October 7, the organization faced insolvency. In the time since, says a source at Zaka, they have raised over 50 million shekels ($13.7 million).

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On October 7, one third of the Israelis who died, 373, were military and police. Many, perhaps the majority, of the rest were killed by Israel itself as part of the Hannibal Directive. See How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October.

The breakout from Gaza on October 7 was a legitimate resistance operation by those whose land had been occupied for 57 years. For years Palestinians in Gaza had been subject to massive Israeli bombing (Operations Cast Lead, 2008–8; Operation Pillar of Defense, Operation Protective Edge, 2014; the Great Return March and many other such attacks). Israeli military called such attacks ‘mowing the grass’.

October 7 was no different from the fight of the Vietnamese against the Americans half a century before. October 7 was the Palestinians’ Tet Offensive.