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Kiongozi wa juu wa chama cha kisiasa za kigaidi cha Hamas Moussa Abu Marzouk alisema hangeunga mkono uvamizi na mashambulizi ya Oktoba 7, 2023 kusini mwa Israel ikiwa angejua matokeo yatakuwaje kwa Ukanda wa Gaza, katika mahojiano na The New York Times ambayo yalifanywa Ijumaa na kuchapishwa Jumatatu.
Shambulio la Oktoba 7 - ambapo maelfu ya magaidi wanaoongozwa na Hamas walivamia mpaka wa Gaza na Israel, na kuua takriban watu 1,200, wengi wao wakiwa raia, na kuchukua mateka 251, huku kukiwa na kukithiri kwa vitendo vya ukatili na unyanyasaji wa kijinsia - liliibua vita vilivyofuata huko Gaza, ambavyo vimesababisha uharibifu mkubwa kwa maelfu ya watu waliouawa Kitendo kilichosababisha Raisi wa Marekani Trump kuamua kuichukua Gaza na kuwahamisha raia wote Gaza zaidi ya milion 2 bila kurejeshwa tena katika Ukanda huo.
"Kama ilitarajiwa kwamba kilichotokea kingetokea, kusingekuwa na Oktoba 7," Abu Marzouk alisema, akisisitiza kwamba - ingawa alidai kuwa hakujua maelezo kamili ya shambulio lililopangwa - hangeweza kujileta kuidhinisha, akijua anachojua sasa.
Kauli hiyo ya majuto iliashiria kuondoka kwa kauli za awali za viongozi wa Hamas. Wiki chache baada ya uvamizi huo, kwa mfano, mjumbe wa politburo Ghazi Hamad alitangaza hadharani kwamba Oktoba 7 ilikuwa "mara ya kwanza tu, na kutakuwa na ya pili, ya tatu, ya nne," akisema, "tuko tayari kulipa" bei, na kuapa kuendelea hadi Israeli itakapoangamizwa kabisa.
Katika wiki kadhaa tangu kufikiwa kwa makubaliano ya kuachiliwa huru kwa mateka ya kusitisha mapigano mwezi uliopita, Hamas na washirika wake pia mara kwa mara wameviita vita hivyo kuwa ni "ushindi" kwa sababu yao.
Wapalestina wanaishi kati ya vifusi vya nyumba zao, zilizoharibiwa katika vita kati ya Israel na Hamas, katika mji wa Khan Younis, kusini mwa Ukanda wa Gaza, Februari 23, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Kwa hakika, matamshi ya Abu Marzouk yalipingwa haraka na msemaji wa Hamas Hazem Qassem, ambaye alisema: "Tabia ya uchokozi na ya uharibifu ya uvamizi huo ndiyo sababu ya uharibifu huko Gaza. Epic ya Oktoba 7 inaashiria mabadiliko ya kimkakati katika mapambano ya kitaifa ya Palestina.
Katika taarifa iliyotolewa muda mfupi baadaye na kundi lenyewe, Hamas ilidai kuwa maoni ya Abu Marzouk hayakuwa "sahihi na yametolewa nje ya muktadha."
"Mahojiano hayo yalifanyika siku chache zilizopita na taarifa zilizochapishwa hazikuonyesha maudhui kamili ya majibu," kundi hilo la kigaidi lilidai.
Katika mahojiano hayo, Abu Marzouk alisema kunusurika kwa Hamas, licha ya kampeni ya Israel huko Gaza, ni "aina ya ushindi." Alilinganisha kundi la kigaidi, ambalo limekuwa serikali kuu ya Gaza tangu kuliondoa kundi kuu la Mamlaka ya Palestina la Fatah katika mapinduzi ya 2007, na mtu wa kawaida ambaye amenusurika kwenye mechi ya ndondi na bingwa wa uzito wa juu Mike Tyson. Lakini alisema kuwa kwa maneno kamili, itakuwa "haikubaliki" kuita vita kuwa ushindi kwa kundi la kigaidi.
"Tunazungumza kuhusu chama [Israeli] ambacho kilipoteza udhibiti na kulipiza kisasi dhidi ya kila kitu," Abu Marzouk alidai. "Huo sio ushindi kwa hali yoyote."
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Senior Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzouk said he would not have backed the October 7, 2023, invasion and onslaught in southern Israel if he had known what the consequences would be for the Gaza Strip, in an interview with The New York Times that was conducted on Friday and published on Monday.
The October 7 attack — in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst across the Gaza-Israel border, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid rampant acts of brutality and sexual assault — sparked the subsequent war in Gaza, which has devastated the enclave, seen tens of thousands killed, and prompted the US president to call for the forced relocation of the more than 2 million residents of the Strip.
January 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Senior Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzouk said he would not have backed the October 7, 2023, invasion and onslaught in southern Israel if he had known what the consequences would be for the Gaza Strip, in an interview with The New York Times that was conducted on Friday and published on Monday.
The October 7 attack — in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists burst across the Gaza-Israel border, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid rampant acts of brutality and sexual assault — sparked the subsequent war in Gaza, which has devastated the enclave, seen tens of thousands killed, and prompted the US president to call for the forced relocation of the more than 2 million residents of the Strip.
The war has also, through fighting on other fronts, significantly weakened Iran’s so-called “Axis of Resistance,” devastating the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, and indirectly contributing to the collapse of the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.
“If it was expected that what happened would happen, there wouldn’t have been October 7,” Abu Marzouk said, asserting that — though he claimed to not have been privy to the exact details of the planned assault — he could not have brought himself to approve it, knowing what he knows now.
The statement of regret marked a departure from previous statements by Hamas officials. A few weeks after the invasion, for example, politburo member Ghazi Hamad publicly declared that October 7 was “just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth,” saying, “we are ready to pay” the price, and vowing to continue until Israel was totally annihilated.
In the weeks since a hostage release-ceasefire deal was reached last month, Hamas and its allies have also repeatedly called the war a “victory” for their cause.
Indeed, Abu Marzouk’s remarks were quickly countered by Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem, who said: “The occupation’s aggressive and destructive behavior is the cause of the destruction in Gaza. The October 7 epic marks a strategic turning point in the Palestinian national struggle.”
In a statement issued a short while later by the group itself, Hamas claimed Abu Marzouk’s comments were “incorrect and taken out of context.”
“The interview was conducted a few days ago and the published statements did not reflect the full content of the answers,” the terror group contended.
In the interview, Abu Marzouk said Hamas’s survival, despite Israel’s campaign in Gaza, constituted a “kind of victory.” He compared the terror group, which has been the de facto government of Gaza since ousting the Palestinian Authority’s main Fatah faction in a 2007 coup, to a regular person who has survived a boxing match with heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. But he said that in absolute terms, it would be “unacceptable” to call the war a win for the terror group.
“We’re talking about a party [Israel] that lost control of itself and took revenge against everything,” Abu Marzouk claimed. “That is not a victory under any circumstances.”
