So more than 1,400 people were killed in the terrorist attack on Israel a month ago, and more than 10,000 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in the Israeli army’s retaliatory attacks that have taken place since then. What did Hamas want to achieve with its bloody attack? Leading members of the terrorist group have now explained their calculations behind the suffering.
With the massacre on October 7, the Palestinian organization consciously accepted an escalation of the conflict, according to a report in the New York Times. According to the Islamists’ interpretation, the aim is to revive the faltering Palestinian cause through violence, the newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing talks with Hamas representatives.
It was necessary to “change the whole equation and not just have a clash,” Khalil al-Haya of the Hamas leadership told the newspaper in the Qatari capital Doha. “We managed to put the Palestinian issue back on the table and now there is no peace for anyone in the region.”
Palestinian victims “necessary price”
In the eyes of Hamas, the many casualties on the Palestinian side as a result of the Israeli response are the necessary price to pay for this, the newspaper writes. The organization’s calculation is to shake the status quo and open a new, explosive chapter in the fight against Israel.
“I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all borders and that the Arab world will be on our side,” the New York Times quoted Taher al-Nunu, media adviser to the radical Islamist group, as saying.
“What could change the equation was a big action, and it was undoubtedly clear that the reaction to this big action would be big,” Khalil al-Haya reiterated. “We had to tell people that the Palestinian cause will not die.”
“It was not about improving the situation in Gaza”
Hamas’s goal is not to rule the Gaza Strip or provide it with water and electricity. “This battle did not take place because we needed fuel or manpower,” he added, according to the newspaper. “It was not about improving the situation in Gaza. This struggle serves to completely overturn the situation.”
The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war has risen to 10,569, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry. More than 26,000 people were injured, the authority said on Wednesday. Among them are 4,324 children and young people.
More deaths than ever before in the long conflict
According to information, this is by far the largest number of Palestinian deaths during a war in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The war was caused by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist Palestinian organizations in the border area. On the Israeli side, more than 1,400 people were killed during and in the days that followed, including many women, children and young people.
Source: Krone
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