WASHINGTON — The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still be rewarded with increasing recognition of a Palestinian state.
Terrorists proudly documented their brutality for the world to see.
“The astonishing fact was that at more than thirty locations, more than 3,000 Hamas fighters, along with numerous Palestinian civilians, had broken through the fence between Israel and Gaza,” Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst wrote of that day in his book, “Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza.”
“Hamas gunmen were going door-to-door, systematically