The following are two recent statements anticipating Israel’s destruction as reported by Palestine Media Watch: ‘Once Israel leaves the region, the gates will open to a resolution of all the problems in the region’, and ‘Once Israel comes to an end, there will be no violence and bloodshed.’
The first statement was made by Hamas’s Political Bureau Member Osama Hamdan, and the second by PA Chairman Abbas’s advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash.
The statements were made following Hamas’s terror attack in Israel, when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,300 Israelis, wounded over 3,300, and took at least 199 people hostage, including the citizens of 36 other countries.
Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan said on Al-Jadeed TV (Lebanon) on 11 October 2023: ‘There is one “No”. No to Israel’s existence. No to Israel’s existence. And I think that Israel is the problem in our region, and that once Israel leaves the region, the gates will open to a resolution of all the problems in the region’.
The Al-Jadeed TV host said that there ‘currently is no possibility of throwing Israel into the sea’. Hamdan said: ‘I’m not talking about throwing Israel into the sea. In recent days the Israelis have written in their media: “What is the value of a state in which every citizen carries the passport of the state he came from?” (sic., PMW found no record of such a statement). Let them return to the places they came from, …and we will also make the way back easier for them’.
OnFacebook PA Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash told channel Al-Nile: ‘The only solution is to end the occupation and establish an independent [Palestinian] state, and we are prepared to resist the occupation for another century’.