Ted Cruz: “Hamas is who carried out the October 7 attacks, who sent…”

“According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign affairs, from 2001 through May of 2008, Hamas launched more than 3,000 Qassam rockets and 2,500 mortar attacks into Israel. And of course, Hamas is who carried out the October 7 attacks, who sent death squads into Israel, where they systematically went house to house, murdering every person in the house, targeting them because they are Jews. They murdered elderly people, they murder women, they murdered children, they murdered infants, they murdered toddlers, they raped women and little girls, and they murdered over 1200 Israelis, many of whom were Americans.” (28:48–29:04)

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