Hamas’ Oct. 7 war was not “aggression” because they entered “lands of the State of Palestine”

Описание: Hamas’ Oct. 7 war was not “aggression” because they entered “lands of the State of Palestine” and rightfully took hostages

Syrian lawyer Muhammad Na’im Akbik: “The occupation (i.e., Israeli) regime is responsible for the rehabilitation of the hospitals [in Gaza]. Not only [is it forbidden for it] to bomb them, but it must rehabilitate them. Today you [Israel] cannot use the excuse that there are rifles inside the hospital, because the law explicitly states that medical military personnel can carry personal weapons. The fact that there are weapons along with wounded inside the hospital doesn’t mean it has become a military base… [The Israelis] say they are acting in legitimate self-defense according to Article 51, and claim: “Aggression was committed against me (i.e., in Hamas’ Oct. 7 war).” Where was aggression committed against you? Let’s go back to the [UN] partition resolution. According to the partition resolutions, the lands entered [by Hamas] are lands of the State of Palestine… You say [the Palestinians] entered and took hostages. Fine. Let’s examine the Convention Against the Taking of Hostages in Article 12. Do liberation movements from occupation not have the right to take hostages from the occupation? Yes, they have a right.”

Host: “According to the law?”

Muhammad Na’im Akbik: “I’m speaking according to the law, according to the New York Convention.”
[Official PA TV, Capital of Capitals – Damascus, Nov. 30, 2025]

Medical teams are allowed to carry small arms for self-defense, but not machine guns and missile launchers as were found to have been stored by Hamas in Gazan hospitals.

“The New York Convention” refers to the 1979 UN International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages.

Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel - Over 1,100 Israelis, including over 800 civilians, were murdered and over 5,000 wounded, in addition to approximately 251 who were abducted into the Gaza Strip (including 154 later released or liberated - among them 37 whose bodies were retrieved - and at least 41 who were killed on Oct. 7 whose bodies were abducted to Gaza), in a Hamas terror war that began when approximately 3,000 Hamas terrorists and thousands of Gazan civilians broke through Israel's security fence at the Gaza Strip border and launched a surprise attack, taking control of several Israeli towns and attacking a music festival on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which fell on the Sabbath, Oct. 7, 2023. During the massacre the terrorists tortured, raped, shot, beheaded, and burned their victims alive, murdering entire families and leaving at least 21 children without parents. Hamas terrorists also fired at least 5,000 rockets at Israeli population centers.
In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords to counter the Hamas terror threat. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon joined Hamas' terror war starting from the following day, attacking Israel from the north. Frequent rocket launches, drone attacks, and shootings continued from Lebanon throughout the war, causing Israel to respond with a ground invasion of southern Lebanon on Oct. 1, 2024, after taking out Hezbollah's leadership. In this conflict with Hezbollah over 40 Israeli civilians and over 70 Israeli soldiers were killed and nearly 200 Israelis were wounded. As a result of the attacks from Gaza and Lebanon, roughly 200,000 Israeli residents of the north and south were internally displaced during the war.


UN Resolution 181 (the UN partition plan for Palestine) was passed by the UN General Assembly in 1947. It called for the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem as a separate entity under the rule of a special international body. The borders of the Arab and Jewish states were delineated in the resolution. The Arab state was meant to be comprised of the western Galilee, Judea and Samaria (i.e., the West Bank), and the Gaza Strip, and the remaining territory of the Mandate west of the Jordan River would be the state of Israel, while Jordan (known at the time as Transjordan) had already been established in what had been the part of the Mandate for Palestine that was east of the Jordan River. The resolution was accepted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, but Arab leaders and governments rejected it.
It should be noted that according to the UN Charter itself, UN General Assembly resolutions are only "recommendations" and have "no legal power that affects the outside world." UN Security Council Resolutions are only binding if they were adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.

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