State Department Spox: There Is No Way ‘Incredibly Diminished’ Hamas Can Repeat Oct. 7

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MILLER: “One is just the question of capability, and Hamas clearly does not have the capabilities it had on October 7th, when it launched that horrific terrorist attack. It has seen its leadership degraded, not all, but significantly degraded. It has seen a great deal of its personnel killed or captured. It has seen a great deal of its military materiel destroyed, and not just the weapons themselves, but the underground factories that they were using to produce more weapons that they used on October 7th, those have been in many cases destroyed by Israel. So it is in many ways an incredibly diminished organization from the one that it was on October 7th, and we do not believe could conduct an attack anything like the scale and scope that it did on October 7th. Now, it still poses a threat, absolutely. Hamas launched rockets against Israel just last week, and Israel needs to continue to have the ability to defend itself against that threat. But this goes to the point that we ultimately think you cannot address this threat with just a military solution.”