In an interview aired Sunday by Al Jazeera, Dr. Khalil al-Hayya, chief negotiator for the Hamas terrorist organization, described the October 7, 2023, massacre as the "inevitable outcome" of decades of what he called occupation and injustice, while defending the group's actions and calling for international prosecution of Israeli leaders.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, al-Hayya said the attack, which he referred to as the "Al-Aqsa Flood," was a direct consequence of what he described as 77 years of Israeli "occupation," including the denial of Palestinian rights, the siege of Gaza, and actions at the Temple Mount. "It was the inevitable outcome of seventy-seven years of occupation, of an occupier that refuses to grant even our most basic rights," he stated.
He accused Israel of seeking to "Judaize Jerusalem," of introducing laws to "divide Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the so-called Temple," and of imposing a blockade on Gaza for nearly two decades. "This is an occupier that denies the existence of a Palestinian people," al-Hayya claimed.
"Despite all the pain, the losses, the martyrs, the wounded, the prisoners, and the destruction of homes and infrastructure," al-Hayya said, "that operation (October 7th) moved the Palestinian cause into a new phase." He asserted that the October 7 events had "shattered the myth of the Zionist entity," which he labeled a "fascist, Zionist state that believes neither in human rights nor in coexistence," and argued that the operation sparked a global "awakening" against Israel. "There has been a revolution - an awakening - across the globe, a moral and intellectual revolt against Zionism," he said. (Ed note: Are you understanding what this man is saying? Do you think that this people thinks that they have been defeated?) (Read More)
