Ghazi Hamad on Al Jazeera, September 17, 2025. (picture credit score: Screenshot/AJA_Palestine)
The IDF focused a bunch of senior Hamas officers in Doha, Qatar final Tuesday.
Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad, who was focused in Israel’s assault on Doha, Qatar, final Tuesday, appeared in an interview for the primary time for the reason that assault on Al Jazeera.
“We aren’t the one goal; the whole nation is,” Hamed mentioned. “Israel has no pink strains.Netanyahu talks about altering the face of the Center East, and that requires an Arab response.”
Hamed described the occasions surrounding the reported assassination try, which he mentioned befell shortly after a gathering to debate a US proposal geared toward ending the conflict.
“We had been sitting to debate the American proposal to finish the conflict,” he mentioned. “Lower than an hour later, we heard explosions and instantly understood it was an assassination try. As residents of Gaza, we acknowledge these sounds. We tried to flee as rapidly as attainable, and we succeeded.”
He criticized the function of American mediators throughout current negotiations.
Ghazi Hamad (R), member of Hamas Political Workplace, delivers remarks on the Israel-Hamas conflict, subsequent to Ahmed Abd al-Hadi (L), Hamas’s consultant in Lebanon, throughout a press convention in Beirut, Lebanon, October 28, 2023; illustrative. (credit score: REUTERS/AMR ALFIKY)
“Our expertise with the American mediator was bitter, and there was no credibility on the American aspect as a result of they withdrew from their proposals,” he mentioned.
On the problem of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Hamed emphasised that Hamas’s actions had been guided by inner values.
“We deal with the prisoners based on our values regardless of the massacres towards our individuals,” he mentioned. “These placing them in danger are the occupiers themselves.”
Hamas introduced Palestinian statehood again to the world agenda with Oct. 7
Hamad boasted of the function that the fear group’s October 7 bloodbath performed in bringing the problem of Palestinian statehood again to the worldwide agenda, in one other Al Jazeera interview at first of August.
He additionally criticized the Palestinian Authority and the worldwide group, claiming that curiosity in Palestinian statehood and the “destiny of Palestinians” was solely achieved by means of the fear group’s “resistance and the blow we dealt to Israel.”
“With out our weapons, nobody could be wanting in our route,” Hamad mentioned throughout that interview.
The IDF and the Shin Wager tried to assassinate Hamas’s management in Doha, Qatar, on September ninth.
Key targets within the strike had been Khalil al-Hayya, Khaled Mashaal, and Zaher Jabarin.
