Hamas has taken responsibility for the fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv that unfolded on Tuesday just as Iran was launching a ballistic missile barrage on Israel.

Seven people were killed in the attack, and 16 people were injured, the Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit and Shin Bet said in a joint statement Wednesday. The two alleged attackers were also killed, police said.

In a statement Wednesday, Hamas’ military wing claimed responsibility for the attack.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
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    04 hours ago

    Okay Hamas is important for the Palestinian cause but seriously can they just stop shit like this? The whole world is paying attention to them and this is how they decide to use that attention?

    • @[email protected]
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      129 minutes ago

      Hamas has set the Palestinian cause back by decades. They’re important in the same way cancer is important to the human body.

    • @mlg
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      34 hours ago

      Aside from killing civilians (warcrimes), I think this does generally prove that Hamas is probably out of any major munitions and supplies. Seems like a pretty desperate and useless attack to carry out. I wonder how aware Israel has been of this and maybe they waited before hitting Lebanon so they’d only have to deal with one thing at a time.

      • Flying SquidM
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        120 minutes ago

        I wonder how aware Israel has been of this and maybe they waited before hitting Lebanon so they’d only have to deal with one thing at a time.

        I think you could be right about that. It would go along with Netanyahu’s former best friend’s claim that Netanyahu wants a forever war to keep his dictatorial war powers.

        https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324