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Proof: Israel's Oct. 7 Leaders Mourned the Dead – and Celebrated Their Own Survival

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e5f2997aa1e86bef3bc2981107f70cfe3a686965062afebbf61c23770e08856e

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970142, mined 2026-10-06 06:20 UTC.

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• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 06:05 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e5f2997aa1e8.json prints e5f2997aa1e86bef3bc2981107f70cfe3a686965062afebbf61c23770e08856e. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e5f2997aa1e8.json and headline-e5f2997aa1e8.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-e5f2997aa1e8.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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