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Hamas killed about 400 Israeli occupation soldiers on Oct. 7 for which it has the right as every people has the right to resist illegal occupation. That doesn't justify attacks on Civilians or taking them hostage ofc. Hamas immediately thought to negotiate a hostage swap to free some of the about ten thousand Palestinians held hostage by Israel in so called "administrative detention" aka. no charge no access to legal defense and torture and abuse.
What Hamas miscalculated was how completely genocidal Israel is and how it is supported in that by the West and Israels regional allies, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan...
Blaming the genocide waged by Israel on Hamas is peak cynicism.
Also if Hezbollah and Houthis would have wanted to do something similar, they would have went in full force on Oct. 7 too. Instead all that Hezbollah did for months was send some symbolic rockets and mortar fire.
what do you think how they took them hostage in the first place? which country in this world would just sit back after what hamas did to their citizens? War has been declared, and it's the consequences of their own, and palestinians ain't innocent, they were very cheerful of the killing and taking hostages of Israelis. Which later turned into victims for some reason. And just fyi, hamas was democratically elected as govt of gaza. So it's a govt against another govt conflict, aka war
War has not been declared, as Palestine is under illegal occupation. Read the ICJ ruling of last year.
What you are saying is like claiming Ukraine declared war on Russia for resisting the Crimea occupation and the green men in Donetzk.
Also just entertaining your logic for a moment. Israel murdered more than 200 Palestinians in 2023 before Oct. 7. Add to that hundreds every year before that. Add to that all the hostages Israel is taking sinced decades.
Your logic is again based on ignoring everything that Israel is doing all the time, until something happens and they cry victim.