When Hamas launched an attack against Israel on 7th October, 2024, Israel was caught unaware and unprepared. In the attack, around 1200 people in Israel lost their lives and around 250 people were taken as hostage by Hamas. It was an unprovoked attack. This attack can justifiably be termed as act of terrorism, though Hamas claims that it was justified from their viewpoint.

Under the circumstances, Israel was left with no alternative other than counter attacking Hamas and war is continuing now, with Israel determined to ensure that such terrorist attacks will not happen again on its soil. Now, Hezbullah has also joined the fight against Israel, with Iran also entering the war against Israel.

All said and done, the fact is that this ongoing war was started by a terrorist attack against Israel and was not started by Israel.

In recent years, several terrorist attacks have taken place in different countries including the September 11 attack in the USA, when 2996 people lost their lives, and the........

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