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Liberal New York congressman Ritchie Torres slammed the media for “sanitizing” Hamas terrorists who’re brutally attacking Israel and killed at the very least 700 Israelis.
“If you happen to homicide, wound, rape, and abduct civilians and youngsters, as Hamas has achieved, you aren’t a militant. You’re a terrorist. The media ought to cease sanitizing terrorists as ‘militants,’” Torres tweeted Saturday.
The Israeli authorities formally declared battle on Sunday, the primary time the nation has made such a declaration for the reason that Yom Kippur Struggle of 1973, after terrorist group Hamas launched a shock assault on the nation, launching rockets from the Gaza Strip.
At the least 1,100 folks have died for the reason that battle started on Saturday, in keeping with officers, together with 700 folks in Israel and at the very least one other 260 folks at a music pageant in southern Israel. At the least 400 have been killed in Gaza after the Israeli army hit greater than 800 targets within the Gaza Strip.
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Automobiles are on hearth after they have been hit by rockets from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian militants within the Gaza Strip infiltrated Saturday into southern Israel and fired 1000’s of rockets into the nation whereas Israel started placing targets in Gaza in response. (AP Picture/Ohad Zwigenberg)
“Hamas’s shock terrorist assault by air, land, and sea is Israel’s 9/11. Dropping 600 Israelis is the equal of shedding about 20,000 Individuals,” Torres tweeted Sunday morning earlier than officers stated fatalities swelled to at the very least 700 folks.
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Smoke rises after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a home in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The rockets have been fired as Hamas introduced a brand new operation in opposition to Israel. (AP)
“Hamas is a terrorist group, identical to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are terrorist organizations. Again in 2001, nobody within the mainstream media described the attackers on 9/11 as militants,” Torres added.
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The necessity for AI regulation transcends political celebration affiliation, Rep. Ritchie Torres instructed Fox Information. (Jon Michael Raasch/Fox Information Digital)
Mainstream information retailers have known as Hamas terrorists “militants” inside their reporting, regardless of the U.S. Division of State designating the Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist group a international terrorist group in 1997, in keeping with the company’s web site.
Torres was elected as a New York congressman in 2020 and secured his reelection final yr. He was repeatedly spoken out about his help of Israel, and known as himself “the embodiment of a pro-Israel progressive” again in 2019.
Israeli troopers head south close to Ashkelon, Israel, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Picture/Ohad Zwigenberg)
The New York Democrat additionally slammed the NYC Democratic Socialists of America for planning an “All Out for Palestine” rally in Occasions Sq. on Sunday.
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Smoke rises from an space close to an influence plant outdoors Ashkelon, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinian militants within the Gaza Strip infiltrated Saturday into southern Israel and fired 1000’s of rockets into the nation whereas Israel started placing targets in Gaza in response. (AP Picture/Ohad Zwigenberg) (AP Picture)
“In solidarity with the Palestinian folks and their proper to withstand 75 years of occupation and apartheid,” the socialist group posted to their X account forward of the deliberate rally.
“The DSA refers to ’75 years of occupation,'” Torres shot again in a response tweet. “For the DSA, the occupation is Israel itself. Ending the occupation means ending Israel—the house of the world’s largest Jewish inhabitants.”
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“DSA has been so normalized inside New York politics that it’ll pay no worth in any respect for its genocidal celebration of Israel’s destruction within the wake of Israel’s deadliest terrorist assault. An indication of how far my beloved New York has fallen,” he continued.
Hamas has reportedly taken a considerable amount of hostages amid the assaults, together with ladies and youngsters, whereas U.S. officers are working to verify if Americans have been taken hostage.
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