A former senior Hamas official says Gaza “crazies,” including infamous leader Yahya Sinwar, caused the war and that ordinary Palestinians don’t support them, according to a newly released interrogation video.
Yousef al-Mansi, former communications minister of the Palestinian terrorist organization, surrendered to Israel and proceeded to criticize Sinwar as the head of a group of madmen who threw the Jewish state and Gaza back into a horrible conflict by orchestrating the attack of the October 7. Terrorist attack that killed more than 1,200 people, the Times of Israel reported.
“A madman threw a big stone,” al-Mansi said, summing it up to interrogators from Israel’s Shin Bet in a video released Sunday.
“This is a group of crazy people led by Sinwar. They destroyed the Gaza Strip. Let’s go back 200 years,” he said.
Al-Mansi described Sinwar as a man suffering from “delusions of grandeur” and claimed that no civilians in Gaza support Hamas or its leadership after more than two months of war have devastated the Palestinian enclave.
Yousef al-Mansi, former Hamas Communications Minister, blamed leader Yahya Sinwar for the war between Israel and Hamas. X/@JoeTruzman Sinwar, who remains in hiding, poses with an armed child in May 2021. NurPhoto via Getty Images
Gaza’s Hamas-linked Health Ministry estimates that more than 17,000 Palestinians have died in the war, mostly women and children, and the United Nations and independent research groups estimate that most of the infrastructure in northern Gaza Gaza has also been damaged or destroyed.
“People in the Gaza Strip say that Sinwar and his group destroyed us,” al-Mansi said. “I have not seen anyone in the Gaza Strip who supports Sinwar, no one likes Sinwar. There are people who pray day and night for God to free us from him.”
Like other Hamas members whose interrogations were filmed and made public, al-Mansi added that the group knew that the Oct. 7 attack went against the values of Islam, which prohibits killing women, children and the elderly.
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Smoke from airstrikes and artillery fire hangs over Khan Younis on Sunday as the war continues to devastate Gaza. REUTERS Palestinians are forced to liberate themselves further south as the war grows to consume all of Gaza. AFP via Getty Images
“What they did is unacceptable according to logic, religion or intellect,” al-Mansi said.
The former Hamas official’s conviction came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted the latest wave of Hamas surrenders in Gaza and called for more members of the terrorist group to surrender and stop fighting for Sinwar.
“They are laying down their arms and handing themselves over to our heroic soldiers,” Netanyahu said of the surrenders of recent days.
“I tell the Hamas terrorists: it’s over. Don’t die for Sinwar. Surrender now,” he added.
Last week, the IDF surrounded Sinwar’s home, but they believe he escaped and is hiding somewhere in Hamas’s underground tunnel system.
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