# Hamas attacks Israel, October 2023

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**Created:** [October 7, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-attacks-israel-october-2023/991234 "2023-10-07T10:17:34Z")\
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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> House members were in a classified-only meeting this morning and left “[clearly shaken](https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1712110772141060331?s=20)”, per Punchbowl News.
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> From a [tweet](https://twitter.com/MaeveSheehey/status/1712110009088082114?s=20) by a Hill reporter:
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> > GOP Rep. Max Miller on the classified briefing about Israel this morning: Miller won’t divulge info shared in room on Israel because it’s classified but - “I learned something very, very new within that room that has changed the scope and how I see this developing situation.”

> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> That’s… ominous. Could Hamas have gotten its hands on a nuke? What else could it be? Just genuinely horrific non-public photos of atrocities?

Meh. Doesn’t have to be a _nuke_… could be chemical or biological, too. Or something to make a dirty bomb? Or something else I can’t think of at the moment since I wasn’t at that meeting.

> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I don’t see how Hamas could use a nuclear weapon against Israel without killing many of their coreligionists.

I’m not sure Hamas cares.

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