Hamas stages Israeli attack to recall Gaza war

Published November 17, 2014

Hamas rulers have staged a mock attack by Israel to commemorate Israel's 2008 Gaza offensive.

The re-enactment included loud booms, clouds of smoke, fake blood and rubble. Only the rubble was real.

About 40 actors put on the show Thursday at an apartment tower heavily damaged in the war.

Booms inside the building were followed by plumes of smoke and children's screams. Medics rushed to evacuate children covered in red paint. A car burned nearby.

About 200 people watched.

Some 1,400 Gazans and 13 Israelis were killed in the war, which Israel launched two years ago to stop rocket attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza.

Hamas official Ashraf Abu Daya said the show sought to "remind the world of the agony of the Gaza war" and the suffering that followed.

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