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Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad (left) speaks in an interview to Al Jazeera, on September 17, 2025. (Al Jazeera Arabic screenshot)
September 17, 2025, 11:59 pm
Senior Hamas official makes first appearance since surviving Israeli strike in Qatar
Interview is latest sign attack failed to kill terror group’s leaders; Ghazi Hamad says they were discussing truce proposal when strike hit
By Nurit Yohanan
Republican nominee Donald Trump and Arab Americans for Trump chair Bishara Bahbah at a campaign event ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. (Bisharah Bahbah/X)
May 14, 2025, 2:18 am
Palestinian-US political activist operated key backchannel in Edan Alexander’s release
Bishara Bahbah passed messages between Witkoff and senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, and succeeded in convincing terror group to free the American-Israeli hostage unconditionally
By Jacob Magid
Two posters disseminated by Hamas in August 2024 following a failed suicide attack in Tel Aviv, vowing to blow up Israeli buses. (Via Telegram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 26, 2024, 4:02 pm
Terrorize Israelis while eliciting sympathy abroad: Inside Hamas’s propaganda strategy
In accordance with its founding charter, Hamas uses a sophisticated media presence and uniform narrative to rally its base — and turn the world against Israel
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, October 26, 2023. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
June 20, 2024, 10:02 pm
Senior Hamas official: IDF spokesman ‘confessed’ Israel has failed in Gaza war goals
Ghazi Hamad tells Al Jazeera: Hagari’s comment that Hamas ideology can’t be eliminated from ‘the hearts of the people’ constitutes an admission ‘that [Israel] has already failed’
By ToI Staff
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaks in an interview with Lebanese channel LBC on October 24, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 1, 2023, 9:41 pm
Hamas official says group aims to repeat Oct. 7 onslaught many times to destroy Israel
Ghazi Hamad, of terror group’s politburo, hails assault in which civilians were systematically murdered, saying ‘there will be a second, a third, a fourth’; US official: ‘Chilling’
By Gianluca Pacchiani and Michael Bachner
Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, October 26, 2023. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 27, 2023, 2:30 pm
Hamas official storms out of BBC interview when asked about Israeli civilians killed
In conversation with UK broadcaster, Ghazi Hamad unwilling to explain why Israeli families were killed in their sleep, repeats lie that commanders instructed to only target IDF
By Gianluca Pacchiani
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer left, shakes hands with Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar following a meeting in Gaza City, September 5, 2017. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)
September 5, 2017, 2:09 pm
In Hamas talks, Red Cross chief asks to visit missing Israelis
Peter Maurer meets with terror group chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza Strip, laments situation of civilian population
By Stuart Winer
A picture taken from the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Egyptian soldier manning a watch tower on the Egyptian side, on October 26, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
November 17, 2015, 10:52 am
PA, Egypt reach Gaza border deal over Hamas’s head
Ramallah official vague on implementation of agreement, which would allow movement of people and commercial goods through Rafah
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians watch the speech of PA President Mahmoud Abbas on a giant screen in Ramallah as he addresses the world at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 30, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
October 1, 2015, 2:40 pm
Abbas aide: PA won’t tear up Oslo, but also won’t comply with accord
Day after Abbas threatens to discard agreement, Mahmoud Habbash says Palestinians won’t be ’employees’ of Israel
By ToI Staff
Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Saeb Erekat. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
August 20, 2015, 10:33 pm
As West Bank storm brews, Abbas looks to groom a successor
September could be a fateful month — with an escalation of violence, major changes in the Palestinian leadership, or both
By Avi Issacharoff
Masked members from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades carry a model of a rocket during a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement Hamas at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Central Gaza Strip, December 12, 2014 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
June 22, 2015, 6:01 pm
Hamas raps UN report criticism, but praises condemnation of Israel
Gaza groups, which fired 4,500 projectiles indiscriminately into Israel, claim rocket attacks were aimed at military installations and therefore legitimate
By AFP, AP and ToI Staff
Gaza journalist Mustafa Sawwaf at a Hamas rally in 2011 (Mustafa Sawwaf Facebook page)
June 1, 2015, 9:19 pm
Time to negotiate with Israel, says Hamas journalist
Mustafa Sawwaf claims Gaza group has left Palestinian cause at a nadir; Hamas not a partner, says incoming Israeli Foreign Ministry chief
By Elhanan Miller
Illustrative photo of a Hamas police officer carrying a rifle in the Gaza Strip (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 14, 2015, 7:43 pm
Hamas tightens grip on Gaza as reconstruction stalls
Despite authoritarian governance, Islamist rulers still more popular than Fatah in Gaza and West Bank, poll shows
By Karin Laub and Fares Akram
Illustrative: Masked Hamas members carry a model of a rocket during a rally in the central Gaza Strip on December 12, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 15, 2015, 10:26 am
Hamas hardliner runs secret Gaza terror cells targeting Fatah
Islamist terror group’s former interior minister, Fatahi Hamad, seen behind recent series of bombings, aims to prevent Palestinian unity progress
By Avi Issacharoff
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, February 8, 2007 (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)
January 2, 2015, 11:57 am
From a Hamas leader, unusual introspection
Top Gaza official Ghazi Hamad breaks two taboos in a most unusual op-ed: he admits unity with Fatah is a sham, and criticizes Hamas’s sole reliance on ‘armed resistance.’ But there is no softening on Israel
By Elhanan Miller
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