Click here to watch: Hamas Say it’s Leading Gazans to Their Death
Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas’s chief spokesman in Gaza, has a rather unfortunate Freudian slip, accidentally declaring that Hamas is leading the Palestinians to their death. “We aren’t leading our people today to destruction. We are leading our people to death…I mean to confrontation with this occupier,” he says on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV. As Hamas faces a growing chorus of criticism, including from PA President Mahmoud Abbas, that it has dragged Gaza into violent confrontation for no discernible reason, Abu Zuhri’s efforts to deflect the criticism seem to be going rather poorly. Now Hamas says the video was fabricated (link in Arabic), and the Hamas spokesman’s voice was a voiceover. Sami Abu Zuhri is the same spokesman who urged Gazans to serve as human shields against Israeli airstrikes.
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Israel Radio’s Gal Berger reports on Twitter that some Arab voices are expressing anger at Hamas leaders, especially those living overseas who are urging and ordering continued rocket fire on Israel without suffering the consequences of Israeli strikes being felt by ordinary Gazans. This tweet reads: “A website affiliated with Hamas was hacked and pictures were uploaded showing Khaled Mashaal sprinkling olive oil” — with the unspoken implication: “while Gaza burns.” Berger quotes a caption accompanying the photo: “This is the true face of Hamas’s leadership.” In this tweet, Berger quotes an Egyptian journalist, Ahmed Moussa, bitterly complaining about the relative comfort in which Mashaal and Hamas’s former prime minister Ismail Haniyeh are weathering the conflict. “Here — this is their jihad,” Moussa writes, according to Berger.
Source: Times of Israel
