American lawyer: Hamas praised civilian casualties

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00:00But not everyone in Gaza is Hamas.

00:04There are people who are being caught up in this who aren't part of Hamas.

00:08Of course, and there are people in Israel who aren't supporters of Nazis.

00:11And you know, in a war, people get killed on both sides.

00:15Hamas started the war, there's no doubt about that.

00:17I've not heard Ahmad admit yet that on October 7th, Hamas started the war.

00:22By starting the war, they exposed their civilians just the way when the Nazis started the war

00:28in 1939, they knew there'd be tens of millions of German civilians killed.

00:33That's what happens in war.

00:34If you don't want civilians to be killed, you don't do two things.

00:37You don't start a war and you don't put your civilians as human shields.

00:42If you use your civilians as human shields, and by the way, Sinwa said that in his dying

00:47declaration just before he died, he praised the martyrs who were human shields.

00:53We have tape recordings of Hamas leaders praising human shields.

00:57We are all martyrs.

00:58Sinwa said he wants civilians to be killed.

01:02Every time Israel kills a civilian, that helps Hamas.

01:05So let's put the responsibility where it is, squarely with Hamas.