New York Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres slammed the media for calling Hamas terrorists attacking Israel as « militants, » according to messages on social media.
Liberal New York congressman Ritchie Torres slammed the media for « sanitizing » Hamas terrorists who are brutally attacking Israel and killed at least 700 Israelis.
« If you murder, wound, rape, and abduct civilians and children, as Hamas has done, you are not a militant. You are a terrorist. The media should stop sanitizing terrorists as ‘militants,’ » Torres tweeted Saturday.
The Israeli government officially declared war on Sunday, the first time the nation has made such a declaration since the Yom Kippur War of 1973, after terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack on the nation, launching rockets from the Gaza Strip.
At least 1,100 people have died since the war began on Saturday, according to officials, including 700 people in Israel and at least another 260 people at a music festival in southern Israel. At least 400 were killed in Gaza after the Israeli military hit more than 800 targets in the Gaza Strip.
