Human Rights Watch report says Hamas-led militants committed 'hundreds' of war crimes on Oct. 7
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Hamas led other Palestinian armed groups in committing hundreds of war crimes in the surprise October 7 attack on Israel that set off the Gaza war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday (July 17). Hamas reacted with fury to one of the most in-depth international studies on the unprecedented incursion into southern Israel, demanding that HRW withdraw the report and "apologise. Jordana Miller, ABC correspondent, tells us more.