Husam zomlot, welcome to hardtalk. Husam, i want to start with something personal. You yourfamily is from the south of gaza. When you heard of the murderous attack that hamas had launched on israel on october 7, did you immediately realise that this was going to put your family and so many others in gaza in extraordinary danger . Yes, absolutely. Not only my family, but all people in gaza and my entire nation, because i knew israel will instrumentalise this in the most horrible way possible. And this is exactly what happened, trying to link hamas to the Palestinian People, and then link hamas to isis, then linking the Palestinian People to isis, in preparation for this horror we are witnessing right this moment. Surely, the message israel was making and was bound to make was between hamas and unbelievable levels of barbarity and violence . And what they had to do was commit to destroy hamas. We have to listen to what the israeli officials and politicians and fanatics have been saying f
with a descendant of lithuanian dues whose family had been wiped out and, you believe, some of them wiped out by your own grandfather. he s callled grant gochin and from grant gochin s point of view, you yourfamily represent the reason why hundreds of his forefathers, you know, his predecessors in his family were eliminated. and he is so mindful, of course, that 95% of all lithuanianjews were eliminated in the course of the nazi rule in lithuania. so, this is a man who has every reason to regard you with the deepest of suspicion. yes. i think it was bowled over though by the fact that i was coming out against my grandfather and i was not defending him.
grandfather s name taken off all of the different memorials that celebrate him, still, inside the country. and you joined forces with a descendant of lithuanian dues whose family had been wiped out and, you believe, some of them wiped out by your own grandfather. he s callled grant gochin and from grant gochin s point of view, you yourfamily represent the reason why hundreds of his forefathers, you know, his predecessors in his family were eliminated. and he is so mindful, of course, that 95% of all lithuanianjews were eliminated in the course of the nazi rule in lithuania. so, this is a man who has every reason to regard you with the deepest of suspicion. yes. i think it was bowled over though by the fact