On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas (a U.S.-designatedforeign terrorist organization, or FTO) led surprise attacks against Israel from the GazaStrip by land, sea, and air. The assault came on a Jewish holiday, 50 years after theEgypt-Syria surprise attack that sparked the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The attacks’ scopeand lethality against Israel have no precedent in the 16 years Hamas has controlledGaza, and the nature of the violence stunned Israelis. The apparent intelli
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