Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad: October 7 led to international recognition of a Palestinian State and proved defeating Israel is not that difficult; we will never surrender our weapons – Israel can dream we will
Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said in an August 2, 2025 interview on Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) that international recognition of a Palestinian state is an outcome of the October 7 attack.
He said that Palestinian weapons are central to the Palestinian cause, and all Palestinians, not just Hamas, have been raised with this mindset.
Surrendering Hamas’s weapons, he said, would mean the end of the Palestinian cause, adding: “Israel can dream we will surrender our weapons to it.” Hamad claimed that Palestinians are not doing anything illegal, are not terrorists, and are not using terrorist methods.