The doc was the group’s first public report justifying the assaults . (File)
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The Hamas group mentioned Sunday its October 7 assault on Israel was a “mandatory step” towards Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
However the group admitted in a 16-page report on the assaults that “some faults occurred… as a result of speedy collapse of the Israeli safety and navy system, and the chaos brought about alongside the border areas with Gaza”.
The doc was the group’s first public report launched in English and Arabic justifying the assaults after they broke by way of Gaza’s militarised border. Their assaults resulted within the deaths of about 1,140 folks, largely civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally primarily based on official Israeli figures.
The group mentioned the assaults had been “a mandatory step and a traditional response to confront all Israeli conspiracies towards the Palestinian folks”.
The operatives seized about 250 hostages through the assault. Israel says round 132 stay in Gaza, of whom at the least 27 captives are believed to have been killed, in keeping with an AFP tally primarily based on Israeli figures.
Israel’s relentless bombardment and floor offensive have killed at the least 25,105 folks in Gaza, largely girls and youngsters, in keeping with the Hamas-run well being ministry.
Hamas urged “the rapid halt of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the crimes and ethnic cleaning dedicated towards all the Gaza inhabitants”.
And the group rejected any worldwide and Israeli efforts to resolve Gaza’s post-war future.
“We stress that the Palestinian folks have the capability to resolve their future and to rearrange their inside affairs,” the assertion mentioned, including that “no occasion on the planet” had the best to resolve on their behalf.
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