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2024-03-08 05:39:27 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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According to international law, an occupied people has the legal right to fight the occupying force. This is exactly what Hamas did. The majority of the dead civilians on the israeli side were in fact killed by the IDF, and not by Hamas: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-opens-probe-into-reports-oct-7-friendly-fire-deaths-2024-02-06/#:~:text=Around%201%2C200%20Israelis%20and%20foreigners,since%20Israel's%20founding%20in%201948. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-hostages-investigation-friendly-fire-3b6fdd4592957340b32a8ee71505b8e9 https://www.liberationnews.org/evidence-shows-israel-killed-many-of-its-own-citizens-on-oct-7-then-blamed-hamas/ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/another-israeli-witness-confirms-israeli-tanks-killed-own-citizens-on-oct-7/3079514 https://middleeastobserver.org/2023/10/29/new-evidence-that-idf-shelled-israeli-citizens-on-oct-7-killing-over-a-hundred/ https://www.anews.com.tr/middle-east/2023/11/10/israel-army-kills-its-citizens-during-october-7-attacks-report-idf-accused-of-killing-israeli-civilians-on-october-7 https://dohanews.co/israel-admits-killing-its-own-people-at-music-festival-on-october-7/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire_during_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war#cite_note-Ynet240111-17 https://www.blackagendareport.com/shielding-us-public-israeli-reports-friendly-fire-october-7 https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/new-evidence-emerges-israel-killing-its-own-civilians https://ground.news/article/israel-admits-to-immense-amount-of-friendly-fire-on-7-october
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