Israel has been continuing to kill Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th Attack of 2023, perpetrated by Palestinian armed group Hamas. Since then, at least 55.000 Palestinians have been killed by IDF.
While Israel tries to legitimize its genocide by referring to October 7th Attack, Palestinian side claims that they have been suffering from Israeli occupation and oppression since 1948, literally when Israel was established.
Straturka has reached a Hamas official and asked the reason behind October 7th Attack, which resulted in highest casualties in Israeli history. The official said the only goal was to punish the military outpost responsible for crossing between Gaza and Israel (probably Erez Crossing). According to the official, Israel soldiers on duty on the crossing gate were continuously torturing and killing Gazans. He claimed that several hundred Gazans were killed just for joy. Besides, those in blacklist of IDF were being detected by sensors and shot to death on the gate, which was no different than animal pathways. When persecution came to an unbearable point, Al-Qassam Brigades decided to take revenge and attacked the military outpost. Thus, punishment was local and did not aim a full scale war at that time, he added. Official also said they did not expect Israel would respond so brutal to their attack, which was for self-defense of Gazans, who were given a certain amount of food, necessary only for survival .
