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Ghazi Hamad called the October 7 Hamas attack a golden moment for the Palestinian cause, denying responsibility for Gaza deaths and rejecting claims of hostage abuse
The Hamas militants had killed 1,200 people in Israel on October 7 and took more than 250 as hostages.
A senior Hamas official has claimed that the attack carried out on October7, 2023, in Israel created a “golden moment” for the Palestinian cause.
“You know what is the benefit of October 7th now? …If you look to the (United Nations) General Assembly yesterday, when about 194 people opened their eyes and looked to the atrocity, to brutality of Israel and all of them, they condemned Israel. We waited for this moment for 77 years,” said Ghazi Hamad in an interview two weeks after surviving an Israeli air strike on a Hamas compound in Doha.
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The Hamas militants had killed 1,200 people in Israel on October 7 and took more than 250 as hostages.
“I think this is a golden moment for the world to change the history,” he said while being unapologetic about deaths of thousands of Palestinians since the attack.
His comments came the same day as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the October 7 attack and said that Hamas would have no role in Palestinian state in the future.
“You could not exclude Hamas from the Palestinian … questions and Palestinian situation, because Hamas is playing a positive role,” Hamad said.
On being questioned by CNN on whether Hamas shares some culpability – on whether the attacks were worth the thousands who have died in Gaza, the senior Hamas official refused to accept even some responsibility and said: “I know the price (is) so high, but I’m asking again, what is the option?”
On the question of whether Hamas was using the hostages to deter Israel’s invasion, Hamad denied that Hamas is using the remaining hostages as human shields and insisted that they are all treated “with Islamic principles.”
On the claims by some of the freed hostages that they were sexually abused, Hamad said that “there is no one proof to prove that we use these things against people.”
Doha, Qatar
September 26, 2025, 02:55 IST
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