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If you go by the definition of terrorism being the actions of a sub state entity, and that October 7th was an act of war by a state against another state by soldiers representing Palestine.
Easier to sell the idea of wiping terrorists off the map, and aim to put yourself on the correct side of the 'war on terror' which could be argued is also not strictly a war by definition.
Acliff
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It was war. Soldiers sometimes do terrible things. Some Russian soldiers in Ukraine are just as bad. But they're the official army of a sovereign state, so they can't be described as terrorists. Hamas started out as terrorists but they've been the de facto government of Gaza for years, so their fighters qualify as soldiers. People label them as terrorists for political reasons, not because it's correct.