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Claims that Reagan campaign representatives secretly interfered with Iran hostage negotiations before the 1980 election.
On 7 October 2023 Hamas launched a large-scale attack from Gaza into southern Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostage. Hamas publicly claimed responsibility. Three distinct conspiracy sub-claims have circulated: (1) Israel had advance warning and deliberately allowed the attack; (2) Israeli casualty figures were fabricated or exaggerated; (3) Israel staged or orchestrated the attack. The first reflects documented intelligence failures with an unverified "deliberate stand-down" extrapolation. The second is contradicted by the named casualty record and by footage verified by the UN Commission of Inquiry. The third is directly contradicted by Hamas's own public claims of responsibility and by the attackers' own footage, verified by the UN Commission of Inquiry.