Hamas House of Horrors

A compendium of the numerous ills and horror actions of Hamas and their supporters.

- On October 7^th, 2023, Hamas crossed the border from Gaza and massacred 1,200 Israelis – the largest single day terrorist massacre of innocent civilians since 9/11. They also kidnapped 251, the largest single-day kidnapping and hostage holding of the modern age.

- As part of the above, Hamas killed 350 young people at a music festival and raped, butchered and beheaded several, filming much of it on their Go-Pro Cameras. Crowds were filmed whooping with joy as they returned to Gaza with the hostages.

- In 20 years of power, Hamas didn’t build a single bomb shelter to protect their civilians in order to maximize civilian casualty rates and garner Western sympathy with any Israeli counter attacks. When these civilian casualty rates weren’t high enough, Hamas lied and inflated them to satisfy this agenda.

- The major construction that took place in Gaza was a network of 300 miles of tunnels – as large as the entire London underground network - to shield Hamas terrorists and store rockets and arms. NO civilians were ever allowed into these tunnels to protect them from bombings – otherwise this would have reduced the civilian kill rates. One of the main things required to demonize Israel.

- Hamas denied rape and beheadings on October 7^th, even though much of this was filmed on their own Go-Pro cameras. Later, extensive testimony and forensic evidence proved widespread rape and numerous beheadings. One of those filmed on camera was the beheading of a Thai kibbutz worker with a back-hoe.

- Hamas and arch Palestinian supporters held a number of marches in major cities straight after October 7^th, before any reprise military action from Israel – thereby putting the lie to the claim that these were simply anti-Gaza-war protests.

- Hamas and arch Palestinian supporters ripped down posters put up of any Israeli hostages in major cities. Even though any posters put up of missing cats and dogs would be left alone. As one journalist commented, ‘This was akin to treating Israelis and Jews worse than cats and dogs.’

- In denying that any babies had been beheaded, Hamas used a misquoted report that ‘Forty babies had been beheaded’ to make out that none had been beheaded, when in fact the number was fourteen or fifteen of the forty babies and infants killed. UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese also voiced this claim.

- Up to 100 UNRWA staff members were picked out on film by Israel as taking part in October 7^th, although only 11 were fired for this by the UN. A number of hostages also reported being held in UNRWA homes.

- Hamas has also blatantly used UNRWA in a continual aid and food skimming operation, which in 2024 alone is estimated to have garnered them $500 million. This has been the root cause of Hamas combined with UNRWA resisting the new GHF food initiative aimed at getting food and aid directly to the Gazan people.

- As part of this initiative to discredit GHF, Hamas has put out a succession of false stories that Israel has killed numerous Gazan civilians trying to get aid, when in fact the only verified accounts have been of Hamas killing both civilians and GHF aid workers.

- Hamas has hired thousands of child soldiers – a Saudi news report put this figure as high as 30,000, though the final figure is close to 16,000 – some as young as eleven. Wearing masks, it’s impossible to tell their age, though when return sniper fire has hit these ‘under 18s’, Hamas has simply claimed that a number of ‘poor Palestinian children’ have been found with head and neck wounds, as if Israel is killing Palestinian children for no reason.

- Hamas has repeatedly made the false claim that ‘mainly women and children’ have been killed in the Gaza war, despite a regular war stat that 2.4 x more men are killed than women, and in the Gaza war 72% of deaths have been 15+ males, of which 85% have been combatants.

- Hamas has regularly used medics and journalists for cover. Of the 15 medics killed a few months ago, it transpires 8 or 9 of them were Hamas, the remainder providing cover with a medic vehicle for a surprise ambush. With the recent ‘journalist’ killed, Anas al-Sharif, we discover he was a fully trained and affiliated Hamas member, with numerous photos of him with Hamas leaders such as Yahya Sinwar.

- Hamas regularly supply the media with false reports demonizing Israel. Their most recent ‘false news assault’ has been to provide photos of a supposedly starving infant – when in fact it turns out he has cerebral palsy. His three-year-old brother can be seen as perfectly healthy and well-fed by his side, as can numerous other children in the hospital and streets outside.

- Hamas and their supporters have made claims of ‘genocide’ against Israel, but the truth of the matter is Israel has gone to more lengths to avoid civilian casualties than any other fighting force in history. This has involved dropping 18 million leaflets and making 42 million text message calls to warn civilians from danger areas. As a result, Israel has achieved a CD (collateral damage) rate of almost 1 to 1, compared to CD rates of 2.6 civilians for every combatant for USA, NATO and UK forces. So, to have an even playing field with claims of genocide, you would have to claim 2.6 x worse genocides for all USA, NATO and UK wars of the past 40 years.

- Hamas have an ongoing aim and wish to destroy Israel and all Jews within it and beyond. Their charter proclaims: The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’ The ‘From River to Sea, Palestine shall be Free’ banners are not just empty rhetoric. Hamas aims for the erasure or removal of every Jew between the River Jordan and Mediterranean.

- Hamas continued to make claims of ‘occupation’, even though every single Jew vacated Gaza in 2005. Two years later, Hamas launched a civil war against rivals Fatah, killing 1,000 of them and the rest fleeing. Hamas boasted of throwing many of them from police station and government office roofs ‘to save wasting bullets on them.’

- Hamas takes young Gazan males into its training camps as young as 8, putting them through assault courses and training them to use AK-47s and other rifles. Even before this, indoctrination to hate Jews starts in schools and mosques as young as 4 years old, with the aspiration pressed upon them to later become martyrs by killing Jews. Children’s programmes follow the same indoctrination, with child’s puppets talking about ‘evil Jews’ and the glory of martyrdom.

- Hamas spreads false stories about starvation in Gaza, despite children and people in the street generally being seen as healthy and well fed. Indeed, Gaza receives 30 x the aid and food than Sudan, where there is a real rather than falsely manufactured crisis. Hamas militants are seen on film as particularly robust and healthy, with a number of their leaders visibly rotund and fat. They also regularly display healthy and robust young children in full combat gear wielding AK-47s – which alone cost $3,000 on the black market. Enough to feed a child for over a year.

- Hamas leaders have amassed a wealth of $20 billion from aid skimming and donations from Iran and Qatar, a number of those leaders in fact sitting in luxury villas and hotel rooms in Qatar while their people suffer front line in the conflict. Indeed, Hamas could have stopped the war within the first few months when they witnessed the destruction and saw the death toll rising, but chose not to. Electing to put their own warped terrorist ambitions before the suffering of their own people.

- No doubt to try and offset the very real rape claims against them, Hamas and their supporters have made claims of ‘thousands of adults and children’ being raped in Israeli prisons. However, with security cams every few yards in Israeli prisons, this would be impossible. As a result, there has been no evidence to support such claims, with not a single proven rape case against Israeli soldiers and guards.

- Hamas have proclaimed that they would repeat October 7^th ‘time and time’ again, if given the opportunity. A number of Palestinians and their supporters have also proclaimed it as a ‘glorious act’, including the ‘journalist’ recently killed, Anas al-Sharif. Some right-wing Israeli factions have declared, ‘There are no innocents in Gaza.’ While this might seem too extreme a claim, given that 99% of journalists, UNRWA staff and medics in Gaza are local Palestinians deeply loyal to Hamas, it is certainly a deeply poisoned society. And possibly the only solution would be complete de-jihadization of the area, similar to the de-Nazification that took place in post WW2 Germany.

- Hamas regularly feeds false information to the media. The same happened in the 2014 war in which Hamas claimed throughout that ‘mainly women and children’ had been killed. However, an assessment later by the UN and military observers showed that 58% of those killed had been Hamas terrorists and militants. With exactly the same false claims being made now by Hamas, it appears the media either have very short memories or simply don’t care. The passing on of false, unverified accounts from Hamas sources in Gaza is still rampant.

- Between 1980 and 2005, Hamas launched a series of suicide bombings against Israel, sometimes as many as two a month, blowing apart civilians in cafés, hotels and on buses, including a high number of women and children – and possibly what, seeing the horror this raised in the West, what led later to their own ‘mainly women and children killed’ false claims. Combined with October 7^th, this gives Hamas a civilian kill rate of 78% compared to Israel’s 34%. Expert analysts claim that if Hamas had built bomb shelters, this rate would have been cut by up to 70%. But the main dividing factor between these two sides is that Hamas goes in with the aim and intent of killing innocent civilians, whereas Israel’s aim and intent is to kill Hamas terrorists – but Hamas have an attached Israel-demonizing agenda, so hide behind their own civilians with the aim that as many of them as possible are killed. As a result they put their terrorist tunnels under schools, hospitals, mosques, UN Centres and refugee camps.

- Hamas’s avalanche of false news stories against Israel has led to a staggering 280% increase in anti-Semitic attacks against Jews and Israelis since October 7^th 2023, including a number of injuries and deaths – the murder of two young Israeli embassy officials in the USA being just one example. Two Muslim nurses in Australia controversially claimed to have killed or ‘would kill’ any Israeli patients coming to their hospital. Attacks on synagogues and harassment and abuse of Jewish students in schools and Universities has markedly increased.

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John Matthews is an experienced writer and journalist. The author of 24 books, including two centred around WW2 and the holocaust in the name of J.C. Maetis (his father’s original Jewish name) his first experience of writing about the Middle East came as a war correspondent covering the last years of the Lebanese Civil War, which led to his second book, ‘The Crescents of the Moon’. He has since written on the subject for a number of journals, including The Times, Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The Spectator. He was also in the run-up to the millennium editor of European Brief, the main magazine for the European Parliament, editing the likes of Tony Blair, Al Gore and Henry Kissinger on subjects ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall and European unity, climate change and nuclear fusion to, once again, the Middle East. He lives in London with his wife and family.

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