Hamas Official Demands One-Sided Ceasefire
In an interview with NBC News, a top Hamas official demanded that Israel agree to a ceasefire while the terrorist group is free to continue attacking the Jewish state — including civilians.
The remarks from Hamas official Ghazi Hamad came after he confirmed that the terrorist group will continue launching attacks similar to the October 7 massacre against Israel “again and again” until the Jewish state no longer exists. On October 7, more than 1,400 Israelis were murdered by Hamas terrorists, while roughly 5,300 were wounded and around 240 were kidnapped.
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During his interview with NBC News foreign correspondent Matt Bradley, Hamad demanded that Israel release thousands of Palestinian terrorists and criminals who are currently locked up in Israel in exchange for the Israeli hostages taken by the terrorist group on October 7. He also stated that Hamas would not release the hostages unless Israel agreed to a ceasefire.
“But how can you ask for a ceasefire, how can you ask for Israel to stop their aggression when you go on television in Lebanon here last week and say that you will continue your aggression? You will continue to launch October 7s again and again?” Bradley asked.
“What do you want us to do? To stop?” Hamad responded.
The NBC News correspondent then pointed out that a ceasefire must apply to both sides because that is how a ceasefire works.
“No, I am talking that we want to continue [fighting] against the occupation,” Hamad claimed. “This is our legal right to fight against the occupation. It is according to international law. According to all of the regulations and the law. In Europe, you fight against the Nazis.”
Bradley went on to push back against Hamas’ intentional targeting of innocent civilians in Israel, which has been a consistent tactic of the terrorist group — but Hamad refused to address the issue, instead claiming that he didn’t “have any details about this.”
The NBC News correspondent then questioned Hamad on his previous comments about how the biggest benefit of the October 7 massacre was how the Palestinian issue led to antisemitic protests around the world.
After Bradley asked whether Hamas would murder more Israeli civilians to cause more protests, Hamad refused to deny it and instead said there was nothing the terrorist group could do besides fight Israel.
“It costs you the lives of thousands of people, innocent people, will you do it again?” Bradley asked. “You’ve said you will to advance that cause again. Will you kill more civilians to get more protesters in the streets of Washington?”
“We are still fighting. You want us to stop?” the terrorist leader replied. “If we are stopped now, we will go back to the to the miserable situation, to humiliation, to be under the occupation.”