In a wide-ranging interview, Jeremy Diamond presses senior Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, on his responsibility for Palestinians suffering in Gaza. He describes surviving an Israeli missile strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar and was challenged on the latest peace proposal. In an interview for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), Hamad reiterated that Israel should be destroyed.
DOHA SEPTEMBER 27: In a wide-ranging interview, CNN’s Jeremy Diamond presses senior Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, on his responsibility for Palestinians suffering in Gaza, and the tens of thousands killed following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. He describes surviving an Israeli missile strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar and was challenged on the latest peace proposal.
Ghāzi Hamad is a senior Hamas member. He was formerly the chairman of the border crossings authority in the Gaza Strip and Deputy Foreign Minister in the Hamas government of 2012. Originally from Yibna, Hamad was born in 1964 in the Yibna refugee camp, located along Gaza’s border with Egypt at Rafah Governorate. His father, a member of Palestinian fedayeen, was executed in the 1970s. In 1982, Hamad joined Hamas, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, by taking an oath of allegiance to one of its founders Issa al-Nashar.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine in Sudan. He speaks both English and Hebrew in addition to his native Arabic.
On 24 October 2023, while member of the decision-making Hamas Political Bureau, in an interview for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), Hamad reiterated that Israel should be destroyed. “We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do it twice and three times”.
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