Hamas made these 2 key mistakes when it launched October 7 terror attacks
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The Iranian-backed Hamas terror group appears to have made two big blunders when it staged the October 7 terror attacks on Israel. Comments by Hezbollah leader Nassrallah are proof.
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First, its leadership clearly assumed that the United States would not continue to support Israel if it killed enough of the Palestinians whom Hamas has been using as human shields to protect its command centers and underground tunnel networks in Gaza.
Second, Hamas apparently assumed that if enough Palestinians in Gaza died in Israeli bombing, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its patron Iran would escalate the conflict by opening a second front in the war, a scenario that has clearly worried both Israel and Washington.