HAMAS TRY AND FAIL IN EXCUSING THEIR CATASTROPHIC FAILURE ON 7TH OCTOBER

Hamas recently released a 16 page document in which they try to Icke-splain why they did what they did on 7th October, and also try to demolish Israeli lies about what actually happened.

On the latter they do a good job, Icke-splaining how several claims from Israel have been quietly rolled back or debunked.

But on the former, Hamas fail spectacularly.

The report is available at

Hamas releases propaganda doc denying atrocities, blaming Israel for civilian deaths on Oct 7

Hamas say: 

Maybe some faults happened during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’s implementation due to the
rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system, and the chaos caused along the
border areas with Gaza.

 This is as close as they get to apologising for the deaths of 25,000 Palestinians.

They say that the 7th October attack was "a necessary step".

The statement claims:

1. Hamas operate under Islam and humanitarian ideals, and their target on 7th October were Israeli military;
2. Any targeting of civilians was accidental;
3. After 105 years of Jewish invasion and 75 years of occupation, what did the world expect of Palestinians.

But 2 huge subjects are not addressed : what did Hamas hope to achieve and how? What about all the death and destruction in The Gaza Strip?

In other words: was 7th October worth it?

IMHO, for Israel (and Trump and Musk and Alex Jones) it was.

But for Palestinians in The Gaza Strip the attack on 7th October has been a total disaster.

Hamas fell into a trap set by Israel.

Israel provoked the attack, as the Hamas statement says, and Israel knew the attack was coming. There was a high level intel meeting on the 6th to discuss the coming attack on the 7th, and nobody from that meeting informed the rave organisers. Survivors of the 7th October are taking Israel to court over this failure.

Hamas need to Icke-splain what they hoped to achieve and how. Instead they have swerved that opportunity in favour of amplifying and focusing on the occupation/resistance argument.

And seemingly no apologies and no regrets.

25, 000 dead and 2 million displaced Palestinians deserve an Icke-splanation from Hamas.

This 16 page statement is not it.