Hamas's October 7 denial opens new front in existential war against Israel

A senior Hamas official's denial of the group's intent to kill civilians on October 7 has opened a new front in the conflict with Israel, according to commentary in The Jerusalem Post. Ghazi Hamad, in an interview with Piers Morgan, insisted Hamas did not order the killing of women or children, and that any civilian deaths were mistakes.

Morgan challenged Hamad, calling the actions "utter barbarism," to which Hamad responded, "This is not true. No evidence." The author contends that this denial, despite overwhelming evidence, stems from Hamas's belief that the ongoing conflict and international scrutiny of Israel's actions have created an environment where the defining events of October 7 can be denied or downplayed.

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This is not true. No evidence.

The article strongly refutes Hamad's claims by detailing the extensive documentation of the massacre. It highlights that Hamas fighters breached the Israeli border, attacking towns, kibbutzim, and civilian communities. The author describes scenes of Hamas gunmen hunting people at the Nova music festival, going door-to-door in communities, shooting families, burning homes, and abducting civilians, including babies and Holocaust survivors.

Attackers themselves filmed and uploaded videos of their actions in real-time, making the massacre one of the most thoroughly documented in modern history. The author posits that Hamas's denial is not based on a lack of evidence but on a calculated strategy to exploit the shift in global attention from the October 7 attacks to the devastation in Gaza and accusations of genocide against Israel.

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Hamas believes that the devastation of Gaza, the length of the war and the collapse of Israel's world standing have created conditions in which the defining event that began the conflict can be relativized and denied.