The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that resistance in all its forms is a legitimate right for the Palestinian people until liberation and return.
The spokesperson for the movement, Hazem Qassem, said that what was attributed to Musa Abu Marzouq does not represent the position of the movement, stressing that The behavior of the aggressive and destructive occupation is the cause of destruction in Gaza, and it ends the policy of destruction in the West Bank.
Qasim added that the epic of October 7, 2023 was a strategic turning point on the path of the Palestinian national struggle.
For its part, the agency of Anatolia cited a declaration of Hamas that the declarations attributed to Musa Abu Marzouk, member of the political bureau of the movement, published by the newspaper of the New York Times, were “incorrect and shared by its context “.
The movement stressed that Abu Marzouq stressed during the interview that “the benevolence of October 7 is an expression of the law of our people to the resistance and its rejection of the blockade, the occupation and the colony”. Crimes of war and extermination that he committed against our people in the Gaza Strip, it is a violation of international laws, and it was shocking for the whole world, “according to Hamas.
According to Anatolia, the New York Times said that Abu Marzouq said – in an interview with her – that he “would not have supported the attack of October 7, 2023 on Israel, if he knew the destruction he would have in the Gaza Strip in the Gaza Strip, “she said.
The text of the interview with Abu Marzouq said that he said that “he was not aware of the plans specified for the October 7 attack, but he and other Hamas political leaders supported his Complete strategy of an attacker militarily Israel “.
It should be noted that, between October 20, 2023 and January 19, 2025, Israel committed a genocide in Gaza which left more than 160,000 dead and injured by the Palestinians, most of them children and women and more 14,000 missing.