A senior Hamas official has vowed they will continue to attack Israel until the country is destroyed.
Speaking to Memri, a research organisation based in the US, Ghazi Hamad said: "We will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated.
"We are victims - everything we do is justified."
He defended the organisation’s gorilla attacks that claimed over 1,400 Israeli lives on October 7 and which prompted the start of a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip.
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Hamad declared: "Israel is a country that has no place on our (Palestine’s) land."
"That nation must go because it poses a military and political threat to the security of the Arab and Islamic countries and must be destroyed."
"There will be a second, third, and fourth because we have the will, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight," he continued.
Hamad stated that Hamas were willing to attack Israel as many times as deemed necessary.
He references October 7 attack, as the Al-Aqsa mosque flood, which he states was only the first time.
The interview that went viral today on social media, was first posted online on October 24.
"Will there be a cost involved?," Hamad rhetorically questioned.
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Hamas' armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades hold a Palestinian flag as they destroy a tank of Israeli forces in Gaza CityGETTY"Indeed, and we’re prepared to pay for it.
"We are proud to sacrifice martyrs because we are known as a nation of martyrs," he stated.
Hamad stated that Hamas did not intend to harm civilians, but "complications on the ground" hindered this.
Speaking about the Supernova music festival in which over 260 people died, the Hamas official said: "There was a party in the area with (civilian) population. It was a large area, across 40km."
He ended by demanding that the occupation of Palestinian land must come to an end.
When the interviewer questioned if this meant the "annihilation of Israel", he replied: "Yes, of course."
"The existence of Israel is illogical," he stated.
Ghazi Hamad, member of Hamas Political Office, delivers remarks on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, during a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon on October 30
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Palestinians search for casualties at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza StripReuters"The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood and tears.
"It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of this occupation. Period."
Last night, a senior Hamas commander, Ibrahim Biari, was killed in an attack at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said at least 50 people were killed and 150 have been wounded.
The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has confirmed that Israeli fighter jets carried out the strike.
Over 8,300 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have died since the conflict began last month.
