A top Hamas official abruptly ended a CNN interview on Saturday after he was asked if the terror organization accepts responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian civilians killed in the war.Hamas member Osama Hamdan suddenly ended his interview with CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto after he was asked if Hamas regretted its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed hundreds of Israeli civilians — as Gaza Health Ministry officials say 40,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the war.In response, Hamdan accused Sciutto, who was reporting from Tel Aviv, of taking Israel’s side in the decades-long conflict.
The video was all over social media over the weekend.
I pressed senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan on whether Hamas accepts any responsibility for the loss of civilian life in Gaza, which residents have told CNN they believe it does. He wouldn’t answer and instead took me on a history lesson of events he didn’t know I witnessed… pic.twitter.com/L3UUzHrVPb
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 17, 2024
While the interview shows how Hamas officials try to obfuscate the facts and avoid taking repsonsibility for their murderous actions, the media still avoids describing the explicit support for the most heinous terror acts which these same officials say in Arabic.
On Sunday night, a suicide bomber prematurely exploded himself in Tel Aviv, thankfully not killing anyone but himself. He had come from the West Bank and both Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsiblity for it.
he told Al Arabiya TV, "The Palestinian resistance launched a new model through the Tel Aviv operation." Hamdan stressed that the terror groups still have cards to offer in the confrontation, and that the terror attacks are designed to improve Hamas' position at the negotiating table.
Hamdan has claimed that Hamas terror attacks only target soldiers - but he claimed that the four rabbis slaughtered in Jerusalem in 2014 are considered "armed militias" under international law.
While the CNN interview wasn't bad, these are the sorts of things that we rarely hear journalists ask about when they interview terrorist group spokespeople.
