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Senior Hamas official calls Oct. 7 massacre ‘golden opportunity’ for Palestinian state

Razi Hamad dismisses Gazans’ protests against the group and blames Israel and the US for Gaza’s suffering and refuses to watch clips of the terror group's atrocities during an interview with CNN

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Lior Ben Ari | published: 07:15

About two weeks after surviving an Israeli assassination attempt in Doha, senior Hamas official Razi Hamad appeared again before cameras, telling CNN that the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel “created a golden opportunity for a Palestinian state.”

Hamad made the remarks Friday on the U.S. network’s news program, where he was presented with testimonies from Gazans who oppose Hamas rule. “I know the price is high, but we waited for this moment for 77 years,” he said. More than a month after the killings, Hamad continued to boast about the attack.

The Hamas official, who was targeted in Qatar during Israel’s Summit of Fire operation in Doha, had already reappeared publicly in an interview with Al Jazeera. He told CNN that his survival was “a miracle” and accused the United States of complicity. “It is as guilty of that intelligence as Israel,” he said. “The attack ensured that negotiations would stop abruptly. They are frozen. The U.S. failed and did not act in good faith, it cooperated with Israel. That is the problem with them, they cannot be neutral mediators.”

Hamad praised the international fallout following Oct. 7, saying the attack forced the world to focus on Gaza. “You know what the benefit of Oct. 7 is now? Look at the UN,” he said. “194 people opened their eyes and saw the horrors in Gaza and the cruelty of Israel. They condemned Israel. This is a golden opportunity to change history. I know people are suffering (in Gaza), but what is the alternative?”

His comments followed a video speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations in which Abbas condemned the Oct. 7 massacre. They came before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the body, in which Netanyahu displayed a pin with a barcode that linked to a website detailing Hamas atrocities.

During the CNN interview, Hamad refused to watch videos of demonstrations in Gaza showing protesters calling on Hamas to relinquish control of the territory and describing the group’s leaders as “out of touch with reality.” He dismissed the clips, saying, “I’ve already seen them.”

He also rejected accusations that Hamas was holding Israeli hostages as human shields in Gaza City. “There is no proof of that. We act according to the rules of Islam,” he claimed. Asked whether Hamas would allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit the hostages, he evaded the question, saying only that “the situation on the ground is complicated because of Israel.”

Hamad defended Hamas’ armed operations, calling them legitimate. “Our military wing is a legitimate lawful weapon. We are fighting the occupation. You cannot separate Hamas from Palestine. We have a positive role in its future. We will never surrender.”

The Hamas official recalled the moments of the strike in Doha that targeted him and other members of the group’s leadership. “We were in a meeting with the negotiating delegation and some advisers, and less than an hour after discussion began on the American proposal we had received, we heard huge explosions. We left immediately because we understood it was an Israeli strike. We survived despite the ferocity of the bombardment — about 12 missiles fell in less than a minute. By God’s grace we survived.”

In his earlier Al Jazeera interview, Hamad said that Hamas was not the only target of Israel’s actions but the wider Arab world. “We are not the only target — the whole nation is,” he said. “’Israel’ has no red lines. Netanyahu talks about changing the face of the Middle East.”

Hamad accused Washington of working in tandem with Jerusalem against Hamas. “Every time we communicate with the Americans, in one way or another, it becomes clear they do not honor their words and they change the conditions of their proposals in communication with the Israeli occupation. The Americans are partners in the continuing genocide. They presented the proposal, and when Hamas discussed it, Trump gave them permission to bomb the Hamas delegation in Qatar. Trump speaks for the Israelis and supports the killing of Palestinians.”



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Sons of their father the devil. Golden opportunity in incur the wrath of Israel then play the victim card so all the satanists on standby around the globe can oppose and isolate Israel.

but the world of hypocrite are there for 70 years but don't remembered them all Western countries are in complicit in killing million of Palestine. They only believed in arms without arm zionist and Christian world will not be detter as in Afghanistan . may Allah make hamas victorious

it is hamas who are being oppressed but Zionist and Christian media potray it otherwise
It is because they are Muslim

Kaow12345:
but the world of hypocrite are there for 70 years but don't remembered them all Western countries are in complicit in killing million of Palestine. They only believed in arms without arm zionist and Christian world will not be detter as in Afghanistan . may Allah make hamas victorious

Thousands have been killed in Nigeria. Where is your outrage? Over 3 million Igbos killed during the civil war. Today, you glory in it.

Over 377,000 have so far been killed in Yemen. Where is your outrage?

Over 60,000 killed in the current Sudanese war. Where is your outrage?

Thousands have been killed in the sahel by Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) (IS-Sahel), boko haram, ISWAP, etc have killed thousands in the Sahel region, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, etc. Where is your outrage?

Kaow12345:
it is hamas who are being oppressed but Zionist and Christian media potray it otherwise
It is because they are Muslim

"Those killed by Islamic jihadists are also to be blame".

He said they acted according to the rules of Islam.
What a religion of peace!
Religion that likes to deny it's identity.

Palestinian nationhood can never be achieved simple as that all those morons recognizing them should continue wasting their time