Didnt announce the numbers of the captives or the prisoners, for several reasons, mainly for the need of negotiations with the israelis, in fact we have declared or alqassam declared the the death of woman with her two children and two soldiers till now, not more than this, so were were talking about. That we dont have lot of uh victims under the rubble, there was a talk that we had, there was before, there was before, this is fair around 17 who were killed under the rubble, but im talking about after the end of the ce fire, so were no more civilians now, in the you said you didnt say the number, but do we still have civilians, we heard from one of your members saying that there were no more civilians, we cant talk that there is civilians known for hamas or for the resistance, just for prisoners, mhm. We saw repeated violation during the shortterm truce, repeated violation from the Israeli Regime of this truce, um, you, im of sure that with history, you have experience with this regime, and you know that they always break and violate when it comes to any agreement, uh, why did you go to the truth if you knew that the israelis would violate it and continue to launch aggressions against god . Well, for two reasons first of all, we have talked clearly and frankly that we did not took any civilians. Between practices, they were taken by different ways, not by the militants of hamas and we want them to go back to their families, but that means they have to stop, the israelis have to stop their attack against gaza in order to to make a space to send those people secured and without any harms and the second issue, we know that they will violate the the the arrangements, so we insisted that the mediators have to guarantee them and whenever there is violation, we will postponed any kind of sending those people, and that happened twice, so the violations were not as its usual with the israelis, there was violations, but if you want to talk about the israelis in a normal situation, the violations were supposed to be more and more than this, the regime, the Israeli Regime has claimed that they want to push the gaza population to a limited geographic space, basically were talking about eight kilometers. Kilometers or maybe just the rafa area um do you think that they have, maybe they have not succeeded so far, we see lot of resistance from the arab leaders, but do you think that they do have the green light from the western world to go on with this project to create new exodus in new nakba for the Palestinian People . Well it was clear for from the first days that they were supported in this project by the americans themselves mainly and some european countries, britain, france and germany in fact, blinken, the state secretary, he visited several arab countries and he was talking to all the leaders about this step, and he was encouraging them to accept the palestinians who will be pushed towards egypt, and hes talked to the egyptians, the jordanians, the saudis and other arab countries to accept that project our position as a palestinians in and then. As a resistance, encourage the arab countries to say no, and they have said no, and we undermine this kind of project which was supposed to be another nack before the palestinians, in fact the americans, they start to count the numbers, we will send 2 million palestinians to sina, and then we will send 500 thousand palestinians to saudi arabia, 150,000 to united arab emirates, etc. , and we may send some of them to canada or to australia. So it was not only supported by the americans, in fact they adopted that as their own program, the failure of this Program Changed that to. Another plan to push the palestinians in the south in the in the southern part of gaza, attacking the northern part, considering that will take few days and then they can send the palestinians back to the northern part after it was destroyed and complete the destruction in the north southern part, the resistance also create very serious troubles for this project and even the Palestinian People themselves, we are talking about more than 500 thousand. Who are still in the northern part in gaz city and they not left that part to the southern part, the last massacers in the last few days was happening in in this part of gaz trip and everyone consider that as an evacuated place, in fact they they know more than anyone else that the palestinians are still there. What does that mean to you . Mean for people to know that they could be killed any moment, theyre still in their houses, they remain, what does that mean . It means a lot, it means that the palestinians will not give up their resistance, they will not give up their rights, they will not leave their country, their land, they have done this one before in 1948, and theyve done that by trusting the arab uh armies and leaders at that time, they lift in order to leave few days and come back and they are still in the aspora so they will not uh go to another nakba, in fact yesterday night there was massacre in in in jabalya came and a 19 year year old child he went out of the rebel talking freely that he was injured badly injured he said my mother was killed my sister were killed but we are three brothers and we will stay here in this land and netanyahu will see what will happen in the future we will liberate this land and bring our people back so this is the soil the people, they will not give up their rights and the resistance is a product of that soil the people, so even the resistance will not give up. Well, we can definitely see that combat spirit from the resistance fighters, but how long can hamas last in light of these continuous aggressions and these the targeting of the the civilians, all the infrastructure in gaza, even the talk of the the fact that they want to put poisonous gas into the tunnels, if they find them, that is. Well, you have as a palestinian, you have no choice. If you want to liberate your land, you have to resist. Well, some of our brothers, they have tried to go to the peace process, they have negotiated their rights, they theyve signed an agreement in oslo 1993, and yesterday netanyahu was talking about attacking the the palestinian authority, dismentling the palestinian authority. What does it mean . There is no chance to live with the israeli s by side. Its a land for the palestinians and only for the palestinians and there will be, it was palestine, its still palestine and it will be palestine at the end, so you have one choice, this option is to resist the occupation in order to liberate yourland and to build your independent sovereign state with al quds as capital and bring your people back, so its its not only a choice, its a fact that you have to resist in order to have your rights back. We can handle that, we are ready to do that, in our history, we are still resisting for 75 years, uh, we can last for another few years insh we liberated, do you feel that its somewhat of not a defeat maybe, but mishap on the part of the resistance that the israelies were able to once more occupy parts of gaza, is that considered a blow to the resistance . No, i think, i think whats happening in gaza, it it it shows a clear trap for the resistance to bring the. Is inside, you know, you they cant bomb gazza from outside, they thought for a while that they have destroyed gaza, when when they invated gaza, they were shocked by the resistance of the palestinians. I think this is not what we want as palestinians as resistance, but it shows everyone that we have our options to continue the resistance, and they cant think about defeating the resistance, whenever they they believe that they have. Have defeated the resistance, they saw another ways of resistance, they saw another kinds of resistance, maybe another names, i have to mention the long history of the palestinians, there was a resistance in 1920, and it was led by some some of the palestinians who were killed by the the British Government at the time, the the the the the big revolution, 19136, it was led by sheik. Khaizdin qassam and his students. In 1965 the new resistance was from fatih popular font etc. And then the resist the Islamic Resistance started. In the late 80s of the last century, so all the time the palestinians were respecting the resistance, it may be defeated by the israelis. I think all the time the resistance have shown a clear idea that this cause and those rise for the palestinians, they are still for the palestinians and any moment the israelies believe that they have won the fight, they will find themselves fighting the palestinians another time. Has october 17 . Changed your perspective of the Israeli Regime, mean were you surprised that it can be that much uh we were talking about inv Invincible Army before, but can it be that week to that extent that we have that success succeed . Well, i have to admit that our military leaders, theyve expected the operation to take from 20 to 24 hours to take over all the military checkpoints including the general command for. Gaz brigade, but the shocking good news was it happened in few hours, less than five hours, it shows how the israel is can be defeated if you have a will, if you were equipped in a good way, and if you have good plans and shows also that the presence of israel in the in the region is not because they are more strong than anyone else, because the signs of weakness from the region it shows them that they have the upper hand and they can survive in the region. Now speaking of the region, how would you assess hizbillahs a take on this, that what they call the backup front . Weve seen around 100 marters for hisb, weve seen civilians also fall in south lebanon, there is destruction, there is security basically zone, how would you look at the role of now . Well, and in hamas we have a clear position, the resistance in the region is not supposed to participate in the. Way like someone expect, its our choice as resistance to decide how we have to do that, when we have to do to do that, and the timing of that, so i believe maybe lot of people they think that hisbullah have to do more, or they expected, well, if they are the supporters of resistance, i think its a good choice, its a good thing, because they have a full trust of this resistance and they have a trust. That this resistance is capable to defeat the Israeli Regime, but they have also to understand and to believe that this resistance is a wise leader has a wise leader leadership, they know how to do the things in the proper way, in hamas we believe the support of hisbullah was very important for the resistance and it was very useful too, i i think its very important just to ask you about yemens role in this, our brothers in yemen, they have. Nalot i have to remind everyone that they were suffering for seven years from uh severe attacks, more than half million yemenis were killed in those, most of them civilians. Unfortunately, we dont like to see anyone being killed uh from our ummah. Anyway, they insist to participate and they have done a very important and courage magnificent work. We we have to to admit that regard regardless to all the sufferness of yemen, they are participating in the best way they can do. Do you think that this could really have an impact, mean on the israeli economic . Well, well, well, the impact started, the several Israeli Companies have changed their routes and i think they start to to scream that this if it was continue to will harm their economics. Thank you very much, mr. Hamdan for joining us, thank you very much for your time, thank you viewers, and well well see you in another edition, goodbye, i returned a few days ago from egypt, on the flight i wrote a letter to the children of gaza, and i would like to close my talk with this letter. Dear child, it is past midnight, im flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the atlantic ocean. Im traveling to egypt, i will go to the border of gaza at rafa, i go because of you. You have never been in a plane, you have never left gaza, you know only the densely packed streets and alleys, the concrete hovels, you know only the security barriers and fences, patrolled by soldiers that surround gaza, planes for you are terrifying, fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones. They circle above you, they drop missiles and bombs, defening explosions, the ground shakes, buildings fall, the dead, the screams, the muffled calls for help from beneath the rubble, it does not stop, night and day, trapped under the piles of smashed concrete, your playmates your schoolmates, your neighbors, gone in seconds, you see the chalky faces and limp bodies when they are dug out. I am a reporter, it is my job to see this. You are a child, you should never see this, stench of death, rotting. Under the broken concrete, you hold your breath, you cover your mouth with a cloth, you walk faster, your neighborhood has become a graveyard, all that was familiar is gone, you stare in amazement, you wonder where you are, you are afraid, explosion after explosion, you cry. You cling to your mother or father, you cover your ears, you see the white light of the missile and wait for the blast. Why do they kill children . What did you do . Why cant anyone protect you . Will you be wounded . Will you lose leg or an arm . Will you go blind or be a wheelchair . Why were you born, was it for something good or was it for this . Will you grow up . Will you be happy . What will it be like without your friends . Who will die next . Your mother, your father, your brothers and sisters . Someone you know will be injured soon. Someone you know will die soon, at night you lie in the dark on the cold cement floor, the phones are cut, the internet is all off, you do not know what is happening, there are flashes of light, there are waves of blast concussions, there are screams, it does not stop, when your father or mother hunts for food or water, you wait, that terrible feeling in your stomach, will they come back, will you see them again, will your tiny home be next, will the bombs find you, these your last moments on earth, you drink salty, dirty water, it makes you very sick, your stomach hurts, you are hungry, the bakeries are destroyed, there is no bread, you eat one meal a day, pasta, cucumber, soon, this will seem like feast, you do not play with your soccer ball made of rags, you do not fly your kite made from old newspapers. You have seen foreign reporters. We wear flack jackets with the word press written on them. We have helmets. We have cameras. We drive jeeps. We appear after bombing or a shooting. We sit over a coffee for a long time and talk to the adults. Then we disappear. Do not usually interview children, but i have done interviews when groups of you crowded around us, laughing, pointing, asking us to take your picture. I have been bombed by jets in gaza. I have been bombed in other wars, wars that happened before you were born. I too was very, very scared. I still have dreams. About it, when i see the pictures of gaza, these wars return to me with a force of thunder and lightning. I think of you, all of us whove been to war, hate war most of all, because of what it does to children. I tried to tell your story. I tried to tell the world that when you are cruel to people, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, when you deny People Freedom and dignity, when you humiliate and trap them an open air prison, when you kill them as if they were beasts, they become very angry, they do to others, what was done to them, told it, over and over, i told it for seven years, few listened, and now this, there are very brave palestinian journalists, 50 of them have been killed since this bombing began, they are heroes, so are the doctors and nurses in your hospitals, so are the un workers, almost a hundred of whom have been killed. So are the ambulance drivers and medics, so are the rescue parties that lift up the slabs of concrete with their hands, so are the mothers and fathers who shield you from the bombs, but we are not there, not this time, we cannot get in, we are locked out, reporters from all over the world are going to the Border Crossing at rafa, we are going because because we cannot watch this slaughter and do nothing, we are going because hundreds of people are dying a day, including over 100 children. We are going because this genocide must stop, we are going because we have children like you, precious, innocent, loved, we are going because we want you to live, hope one day will meet, you will be adult, i will be an old man, although to you i am already very old. In my dream for you, i will find you free and safe and happy. No one will be trying to kill you. You will fly in airplanes filled with people, not bombs. You will not be trapped in a concentration camp. You will see the world. You will grow up and have children, you will become old, you will remember this suffering, but you will know it means you must. Help others who suffer, this is my hope, my prayer, we have failed you, this is the awful guilt we carry, we tried, but we did not try hard enough, and we go to rafa, many of us, reporters, we will stand outside the. With gaza in protest, we will write and film, this is what we do, it is not much, but it is something you will tell your story again, maybe it will be enough earn the right to ask for your forgiveness, thank you, the sun shown to announce the. The beginning of new day, it was the 13th day of the war on the gazas rip. Look at the missile, what did we do to deserve being hit by this . The army bombed the children on the beach and destroyed our houses. They killed children, men, women and old men. I have other place to go, so now my children and i are homeless. It is the israelis habit from ages, they say that children fire rockets. First of the headlines the death though from the us is really genocide in gaza nears 19. Palestinian fighters remain engaged in heavy fighting, inflicting heavy losses on the occupation forces. Pressure is mounting on the israeli Prime Minister as he fails to free the captives from gaza, while three of those held are killed by the regimes own forces. And yemens arm forces say that they have conducted new drone strike. Against israeli targets in the south of the occupied palestine