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| | Last week, Hamad stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was asked about the terrorist group’s massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7. | | Last week, Hamad stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was asked about the terrorist group’s massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7. |
| | "Israel is a country that has no place on our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week...</small></blockquote></ref> | | "Israel is a country that has no place on our land," Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week...</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | A digitalized copy of former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar’s six-page handwritten memo, explicitly called for the terrorist group to target Israeli civilians ahead of the October 7 invasion. |
| | + | The letter, dated August 24, 2022, included directives written in Arabic to target both military and civilian targets. |
| | + | Sinwar instructed Hamas to broadcast October 7 atrocities. |
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| | + | After viewing the letter, the NYT reported that Hamas was instructed to purposely broadcast the atrocities it was committing during the massacre to evoke fear and a feeling of instability across the Jewish state. |
| | + | “It needs to be affirmed to the unit commanders to undertake these actions intentionally, film them, and broadcast images of them as fast as possible,” the memo read. |
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| | + | “Document the scenes of horror, now, and broadcast them across TV channels for the whole world to see,” a Hamas commander from Gaza City called Abu al-Baraa instructed his operatives in the area of Kibbutz Sa’ad, according to a message intercepted by Israel. |
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| | + | “Slaughter them. End the children of Israel.”<ref>[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-870091 Target civilians, record carnage: What Yahya Sinwar wrote in his 2022 October 7 memo – NYT]. ''Jerusalem Post'', October 11, 2025</ref> |
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