Moussa Abu Marzouk, Diaspora Office deputy leader, October 2023

Author
Moussa Mohammed Abu Marzouk
Date
Oct. 2023
Body

Speaking to New Yorker magazine about Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel:

“The soldiers are the ones who plan, execute, and so on, but they abide by the general policies put forth by our political bureau. We were surprised by the date but not by the actions.”Adam Rasgon and David D. Kirkpatrick, “What Was Hamas Thinking?,” New Yorker, October 13, 2023, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-was-hamas-thinking.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Israel
Pro-Violence
Threat
Hamas

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Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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