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Eugene

(62,657 posts) Sat Oct 28, 2023, 02:24 AM Oct 2023

Hamas Official Storms Out of BBC Interview When Confronted Over Israeli Civilian Deaths

Source: Daily Beast

Hamas Official Storms Out of BBC Interview When Confronted Over Israeli Civilian Deaths

“I want to stop this interview,” Ghazi Hamad muttered after a reporter asked how Hamas militants could kill families as they slept.

Justin Baragona
Senior Media Reporter
Published Oct. 27, 2023 3:28PM EDT

A senior Hamas official fled an interview on Thursday after a BBC correspondent asked him how the terrorist organization could justify killing Israeli civilians in their sleep.

“I want to stop this interview,” Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad muttered before storming off.

Sitting down with BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega, Hamad was repeatedly pressed on the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks that resulted in over 1,400 Israeli deaths, most of which were civilians. This also included Hamas militants paragliding over the border, surrounding a music festival, and murdering over 250 concertgoers.

According to Hamad, though, the hundreds of Israeli residents killed by Hamas gunmen was unintentional and merely the result of the group attacking military targets. Bachega, however, wasn’t buying the Hamas spokesperson’s spin.

“You say this was a military operation but the result of it was that hundreds of civilians were killed,” the BBC journalist pushed back.

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Hamas Official Storms Out of BBC Interview When Confronted Over Israeli Civilian Deaths (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2023 OP

the music festival was a military 'target' .. ? stopdiggin Oct 2023 #1

Why is.. Think. Again. Oct 2023 #2

Hugo gets around. He was in Lebanon in early October... Violet_Crumble Oct 2023 #3

stopdiggin

(12,830 posts)

1. the music festival was a military 'target' .. ?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 02:36 AM

Oct 2023

how preposterous and inane. Please keep granting these interviews, Hamas. So helpful to our understanding.

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Think. Again.

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2. Why is..

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 04:39 AM

Oct 2023

...a hamas 'official' allowed to just walk around and do interviews?

He's an admitted member of a domestic and international terrorist organization, doing that organization's business, but he or any other hamas member with him weren't tackled and rounded up???

Everyone says they want to stop hamas but no one seems to be doing anything to stop hamas besides blowing up a city they might be hiding in.

Violet_Crumble

(36,142 posts)

3. Hugo gets around. He was in Lebanon in early October...

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 28, 2023, 06:05 AM

Oct 2023

I'm guessing the interview was done somewhere in the Middle East. The Hamas guy is an irksome toad, but it was satisfying to see him squirm and try to justify the unjustifiable. He wasn't as pathetically amusing as the two fat Taliban guys who'd speak in bad English and say how much they liked Australia when the ABC used to interview them in the days leading up to the US invasion of Afghanistan, which as we all recall was a huge mistake for the US and I doubt anyone at DU would have supported. Just sayin'

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