Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began after the group that governs the Palestinian enclave led an attack on southern Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

However, since then, it has been revealed by Haaretz [an Israeli Newspaper] that helicopters and tanks of the Israeli army had, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and civilians claimed by Israel to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.

and took their own people hostage confused