Senior Hamas official: Oct. 7 turned the world against Israel
Al-Jazeera TV Live posted a video on its website and YouTube channel
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: “Look now at [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas. For more than 10 years no one has talked with him about the two-state solution, nor about the one-state solution, and not even about supporting the PA. They only talk about humanitarian aid to the PA. I want to say clearly: The weapons and resistance have sown in the Palestinian land and among the Palestinian people a kind of freedom and a sense of essence and human value. The weapons have also caused great damage to the occupation (i.e., Israel). I tell you now that Oct. 7, [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre on Israel; see note below), this strong blow that was dealt to Israel, I believe it brought about three very great historic achievements. First, it brought back the Palestinian cause. Let me just give you an example: Why do all the states now recognize Palestine? Before Oct. 7, was there a state that dared to recognize the State of Palestine? ...Now the results of Oct. 7 are what caused the whole world to open its eyes to the Palestinian cause and to act on it with strength. The Palestinian people deserve a state and yearn for freedom. Secondly, the whole world believed that the occupation state is a democratic, beautiful, oppressed, and persecuted state. Today I think that the whole world believes that this mask has fallen from Israel’s face. The whole world has begun to act against Israel. The marches and rallies that are now in America, Britain, France, and Germany all speak of genocide. Who [would have] imagined that today occupation state Prime Minister [Netanyahu] is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)? And that even its [Israeli Army] Chief of Staff is wanted by the ICC? And that Israel is now accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing? All these things have exposed Israel. Thirdly, I clearly think that those who thought it was difficult to defeat Israel, [see that] today it has become the easiest thing…In this war against the occupation on Oct. 7, the countdown to the collapse of the occupation state began, and I believe it has already entered a stage of collapse.”
[Al-Jazeera TV Live website, Aug. 2, 2025; Al-Jazeera TV Live, YouTube channel, Aug. 3, 2025]
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