Denial of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

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In The Washington Post in January 2024, journalist Elizabeth Dwoskin says that the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel was among the most well-documented terrorist attacks in history, including evidence from smartphone and GoPro cameras of attacking Hamas militants. Dwoskin states that conspiracy theories exist stating that the attacks did not occur at all, or that they were false-flags.^[1][2] Some Jewish leaders and researchers^[who?] have compared denial of the Hamas-led attacks to Holocaust denialism.^[1]

An Israeli legislative proposal approved by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs aims to impose five-year prison sentences for individuals found denying the events of or supporting the October 7 attacks.^[3]