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Former US official: Hamas started the Gaza war
AlArabiya English
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7/8/2025
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Eli, I think a lot of people would argue that Israel has been extremely aggressive when it
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comes to Hamas and Gaza. The Gaza death toll, now over 57,500 people, 17,400 children have been
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killed, humanitarian aid halted, and this is over 21 months of war. So is Donald Trump the person
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with enough leverage to stop Netanyahu? Because we know the right of his coalition wants this war
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to continue, and he knows Netanyahu, if it doesn't, that his coalition will crumble underneath him.
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Leanne, I would say the following. First of all, when it comes to the numbers coming out of Gaza,
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we have to be very careful whose numbers we accept, because often the numbers are coming
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from Hamas themselves. Now, second, if you understand that the residents of Gaza are in the
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millions, and now you're talking about thousands killed, you know, look, no one wants any death
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anywhere, but it is a war that Hamas started with Israel, and so when any entity starts a war,
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they will expect that there are going to be retaliation, and unfortunately there will be
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death that comes as a consequence for that. Has Israel fought this war against Hamas as aggressively
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as they can? I can assure you that they have not, and again, part of that reason is because Hamas
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understood Israel's psyche and mentality, and they took Israelis hostage.
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