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Senate Intel chair: Hamas ‘cold-blooded murderers’ who’ve ‘terrorized’ Israelis, Palestinians

October 16, 2023 Published by

Just In News | The Hill 

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Monday called Hamas “cold-blooded murderers” and said the group has terrorized both Israelis and Palestinians living in Gaza.

“Hamas are cold-blooded murderers, terrorists. They’ve terrorized the Palestinian people and, obviously, the 1,300-plus Israelis that have been killed and literally hundreds that are now being held hostage,” Warner said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”

“The Hamas leadership has had no pity at all for the Palestinian people. They have put their military bases under mosques, around homes,” he continued. “They have, frankly, tried to restrict the Palestinians from the northern part of Gaza from migrating down to the south, where it appears there will be less violence.”

Warner stressed the importance of distinguishing between the Palestinian people and Hamas, which is designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization, and stressed the ways Hamas was working against the innocent people living in Gaza.

“You can have appropriate empathy for innocent Palestinian citizens. But I don’t think at all that should translate into any kind of sympathy for Hamas,” Warner said. 

“The Hamas terrorists, frankly, in Gaza, they were losing popular support at record levels. And remember, it is Israel who has warned these Palestinians to leave the northern part of Gaza,” he said. “We are trying to work with the Egyptians and others to get that gate open in the south, so at least Palestinian Americans can get out. Again, I think Hamas is putting some limitations on that.”

Warner’s comments come as Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, after issuing a warning through the United Nations for residents to leave the northern part of the strip. 

Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel’s southern border more than a week ago, and Israel has launched a barrage of airstrikes in Gaza in the time since. 

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