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Mark Pocan: “The number of Hamas in the entire country fighting was…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Representative Mark Pocan Town Hall in Madison January 2025

Published | Video Starts at 35:08

And at the time, I think it was like two thirds of that was women and children. Right. And The number of Hamas in the entire country fighting was 30,000 out of 2.2 million people. And the devastation that's happened, there's a lot of internal Israeli politics going on. But I have taken the position that I will never support offensive weapons until something changes there. (35:08–35:16)

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Asserts that there are 30,000 Hamas fighters in a population of 2.2 million.

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