Senior Hamas official seen in public for first time since surviving Israeli strike in Qatar

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad appears publicly for the first time since the failed Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar.

He confirms in an interview with Al-Jazeera channel that he was at the site when it was attacked.

“We (the Hamas leadership) were discussing a ceasefire proposal, less than an hour after the meeting began, we heard an explosion,” he says.

“We are experienced in the sounds of missiles and understood it was an Israeli strike. We left the place quickly, and thank God we survived,” he says.

Six people, including a Qatari officer, were killed in the strike, but all of the terror group’s senior leaders apparently survived.

בכיר חמאס ראזי חמד הופיע באופן פומבי לראשונה מאז תקיפת מטה חמאס בקטר ואף אישר כי היה במקום בשעה שהותקף. חמד אמר לאל-ג'זירה כי "אנחנו (הנהגת חמאס) דנו בהצעה להפסקת אש, פחות משעה אחרי תחילת הפגישה שמענו פיצוץ… הבנו שזוהי תקיפה ישראלית. יצאנו במהירות מהמקום ותודה לאל ניצלנו" pic.twitter.com/bsZlvnMyRl

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