US Republican leader Sam Parker has said that many Israeli soldiers were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) itself amid chaos and lack of intelligence data on 7 October as they retaliated to the attack on their country by Palestine-based Hamas.
Contrary to the US line on the issue of Israel-Hamas conflict, the US lawmaker also opined that Hamas retaliating to IDF attacks was well within its right to do so.
In a post on the X, Parker makes it clear that Hamas attacked Israel to secure their land from foreign occupation.
"The majority of October 7th Israeli deaths were soldiers. Of the rest, many, if not most, were killed by the IDF itself in crossfire, Hannibal directive actions, and just plain panic & mistaken identity. And then of the remainder after all that: remember, everyone is the IDF - how many "civilians" were armed & shooting back? Hamas is legally & morally entitled to conduct resistance operations against its military occupiers & opponents and it's increasingly apparently that that is what Hamas did. BTW, no babies have been identified, yet," he said in his post on the social media platform.
Hundreds of people were killed as Hamas fired a barrage of rockets on Israeli cities in the early morning hours of 7 October which was followed by retaliatory Israeli air raids.
Till date, over 10 thousand people in Gaza and around 1500 in Israel have been killed even as UN and other world bodies and leaders seek end to the conflict that has rendered millions of people homeless.