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Frances Hamed
Frances Hamed [Frances Macalimbon Hamed] ripped down posters meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in October 2023. In August 2022, Hamed expressed support for terrorists as she participated in a rally organized by the anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime (WOL).
Hamas kidnapped the civilians, including women and children, during a series of terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023. Their other war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape and beheadings.
Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 2023, Hamed was listed as part of the 24th Class of Jeannette K. Watson Fellows at the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The fellowship provides “funded summer internships and unprecedented opportunities” to student leaders from 12 New York City colleges, including overseas.
As of November 2023, a bio of Hamed said she had “experience working in the New York City Council and New York State Assembly.”
In 2023, while on the Watson Foundation fellowship, Hamed did a summer internship as a policy research assistant at the Center for an Urban Future (CUF) in New York City.
As of November 2023, Hamed was listed as a 2023 Grove Fellow at Roosevelt House, a public policy institute at Hunter College (Hunter), which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). On the Roosevelt House site, she was listed as “Frances Macalimbon Hamed.”
As of the same date, Hamed was listed as a student at Hunter studying for a bachelor’s degree in political science and a certificate in public policy, slated to graduate in 2025. Hunter is located in New York, New York.
In October 2023, Hamed engaged in a local activism with Woodside On The Move (WOTM), a group “dedicated to make NYC better for all through social services, policy advocacy, & community celebration.”
In October 2023, a few weeks after Hamas attacked Israel, Hamed ripped down [00:00:01] posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza as hostages. The incident was reportedly filmed near Hunter on East 67th Street and Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side, in New York, New York.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’s accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.
As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis as young as an infant of nine months and as old as 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape. Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 7] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Hamed held [first photo] a large sign that said: “HONOR THE MARTYRS OF PALESTINE” as she marched in an August 29, 2022 rally organized by WOL.
Hamed appeared [1st photo] on the right side of the screen wearing white glasses.
The rally demanded the “release and freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners.” It was organized by WOL, Samidoun and other anti-Israel organizations and was held at Washington Square Park, New York.
At the rally, Nerdeen Kiswani, the leader of WOL, reportedly said: “There will be no resolution until we kick Israel out. And no, we do not agree to a two-state solution. We will not concede one centimeter of Palestine - from the river to the sea.”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
Protesters also chanted [video - 00:00:16]: “Palestine is our demand! No peace on stolen land!” and [00:00:43]: “From New York to Gaza: Globalize the Intifada!”
The term “intifada,” which translates from Arabic as “uprising” or “insurrection,” carries the connotation of violence. Palestinian intifadas waged against Israel have been marked since 1987 by hundreds of hijackings, shootings, stabbings, bombings and suicide missions.
