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Donald Trump has claimed that the US is heading for its own “October 7 style attack,” in a fiercely anti-immigration campaign speech at a rally in Wisconsin on his day off from court.
The former president, speaking in the battleground state on Wednesday, told supporters that President Joe Biden was planning to bring “massive numbers” of Gazan people from the Middle East to towns across the nation.
He said that Mr Biden was “determined to create the conditions” of an attack, similar to that which occurred in Israel last year, which has since sparked a vicious and ongoing conflict.
On October 7 2023 militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Southern Israel, abducting around 250 hostages. Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
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