Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk stormed out of an interview Saturday with the pan-Arab al-Ghad channel after being questioned in regards to the affect on the folks of Gaza of the October 7, 2023, invasion and bloodbath.
The interviewer famous that Hamas “mentioned October 7 would liberate Palestine,” to which Abu Marzouk retorted that it was “illogical that 1,500 fighters would liberate Palestine.”
“Ask respectful questions,” he demanded, to which the interviewer responded that he was “asking the query of the Palestinian road, the query of the Gaza Strip.”
Refusing to reply the query, Abu Marzouk as an alternative demanded to finish the published and reduce the interview quick.
After the Hamas official stormed off, the host remarked that the show “sadly displays Hamas’s mind-set and its evasion of solutions and questions concerning the character of the present section, in gentle of the destruction of the Palestinian folks.”
למי שפספס: מוסא אבו מרזוק מחמאס נוטש בזעם ראיון בערוץ אל-רד:
מגיש: אמרתם שה-7.10 ישחרר את פלסטין
אבו מרזוק: זה לא הגיוני ש-1,500 לוחמים ישחררו את פלסטין, תשאל שאלות מכובדות
מ: אני שואל את שאלת הרחוב הפלסטיני
המגיש אחרי הנטישה: זה משקף לצערי את המחשבה של חמאס והבריחה מתשובות pic.twitter.com/QkLhKxBLYx— Nurit Yohanan (@nurityohanan) October 11, 2025
Regardless of his statements, the senior Hamas politburo member informed The New York Instances in February that he wouldn’t have backed the October 7 assault had he identified what the implications can be for the Gaza Strip.
“If it was anticipated that what occurred would occur, there wouldn’t have been October 7,” Abu Marzouk mentioned. He claimed to not have been aware of the precise particulars of the deliberate assault, and mentioned he couldn’t have introduced himself to approve it, understanding what he is aware of now.
His remarks on the time, a departure from earlier statements by Hamas officers, weren’t nicely acquired by the group, which issued a number of statements criticizing Abu Marzouk’s feedback.
Hamas’s recognition in Gaza has declined over the previous two years, with many residents blaming the group for sparking the devastating struggle with its onslaught.
Displaced Palestinians stroll with their belongings previous destroyed buildings as they return to their properties in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and the discharge of the remaining hostages. (AP Picture/Jehad Alshrafi)
Earlier this 12 months, sporadic protests in opposition to the phobia group happened within the Strip, with Hamas making an attempt to detain and hurt the dissidents.
The October 7 assault — during which hundreds of Hamas-led terrorists burst throughout the Gaza-Israel border, killing some 1,200 folks, principally civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid rampant acts of brutality and sexual assault — sparked the next struggle in Gaza, which has flattened a lot of the enclave and seen tens of hundreds killed.
The Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry says greater than 66,000 folks within the Strip have been killed or are presumed useless within the preventing to date, although the toll can’t be verified and doesn’t differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and one other 1,600 terrorists inside Israel in the course of the October 7 onslaught.
