Viral Claim Falsely Suggests Trump Ended Violence in Gaza

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Attacks by Israeli forces and Hamas continue to kill or displace people in the Gaza Strip. But social media posts misleadingly claim Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election led Hamas to call for an end to the war in Gaza. Hamas has called for a ceasefire several times before the election. And the violence has continued since Election Day. Full Story Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 12. An Israeli attack on a refugee camp school left at least 10 people dead on Nov. 16. And on Nov. 23 the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for a northern Gaza suburb due to rocket fire from Hamas. A Palestinian boy walks on the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov. 12, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images. All of this happened after it became clear on Nov. 6 that former President Donald Trump had won a second term in the White House. But a claim...