Two Hamas members kill three in morning rush hour attack
Attackers were brothers, shot dead at the scene
Attack comes on seventh day of Gaza truce

JERUSALEM, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Two Hamas gunmen killed three people at a Jerusalem bus stop during morning rush hour on Thursday, and Israel reiterated its commitment to wiping out the Palestinian Islamist faction, whose Oct. 7 killing spree triggered the Gaza war.

The attackers, Palestinians from East Jerusalem, were shot dead by off-duty soldiers and an armed civilian, police said. At least eight people were also wounded in the shooting.

“The terrorists arrived at the scene by car in the morning, armed with an M-16 rifle and a handgun,” police said. “The terrorists began shooting at civilians before subsequently being killed at the scene.”

Hamas, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem attack, deeming it “heroic”.

      • @interceder270
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        -1110 months ago

        They don’t have a choice. Either kill civilians or get crushed by the military.

        Or give up, which is what Israel and most of the Western world wants to happen.

            • @paintbucketholder
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              410 months ago

              They could also apply asymmetric warfare strictly against military targets, and guerilla movements in other conflicts have done exactly that.

              Nobody forces Hamas to murder civilians. It’s something they’re doing out of their own volition.

            • Praise Idleness
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              010 months ago

              Yeah if I’m fighting with a 6"8 behemoth of a man can I shiv his wife and kids because asymmetrical?

              • @interceder270
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                010 months ago

                You can try to stay on topic and recognize that your analogy is not a 1:1 representation of the situation at hand.

    • @Stamau123OP
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      1010 months ago

      THiS IS whAT DEColoniZATIon LoOks LikE!

      • @Madison420
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        810 months ago

        It’s what an insurgency looks like, proto isreali terrorist groups did literally the same shit.

    • ZahzenEclipse
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      710 months ago

      It’s especially stupid because it hardens the Israeli people even more against hamas and makes them less willing to work with Palestinians when their government members do stuff like this.

      • BraveSirZaphod
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        1510 months ago

        That is literally the point. Violent extremist movements are directly incentivized to make peaceful solutions impossible so that they remain as the only possible option and thus retain power.

      • @Stamau123OP
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        -110 months ago

        Not stupid if the plan is to get Israel to retaliate and pull more factions in

    • @interceder270
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      -510 months ago

      Both sides do. Israel just gets to hide behind the “civilized” war because they have jets.