Just over a month ago, Hamas militants killed 1,400 children and adults, seized 230 hostages, and shattered life for the peoples of Israel. Not since the Holocaust of the 1930s and 1940s had so many Jews died violently in a single day. The terror of that assault triggered Israeli attacks on Hamas that have displaced 1.5 million Gazans, flattened entire neighborhoods, and claimed 12,000 lives, most of them noncombatants. This is the largest death-toll for Palestinian Arabs since the Nakba in 1948.
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