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ICYMI: SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL PROMISES, “WE CAN REPEAT OCTOBER 7 MANY TIMES”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senior Hamas official Ali Baraka recently promised, “We can repeat October 7 many times.” In the same interview on a Hezbollah-controlled TV station, the terrorist also said “Arab fighters” on October 7th “stormed [the Gaza Envelope] and tomorrow, they will storm Galilee. They will storm in from wherever they can.” Baraka vowed that “Times have changed. We will not return to how we were prior to October 7.”
Several senior Hamas officials have previously promised to repeat additional October 7-style massacres in Israel. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar called the October 7 massacre a “dress rehearsal” for future attacks on Israel, and Hamas official Ghazi Hamad warned after October 7, “we will do this again and again.”
KEY QUOTES FROM SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL ALI BARAKA
- “The ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ has turned the tables. First of all, Israel is no longer capable of protecting the Arab regimes. America is busy with China, Russia, and Ukraine, so it delegated to Israel the protection of its allies. But came along the Palestinian resistance and turned the tables. Times have changed. We will not return to how we were prior to October 7. Israel is fragile.”
- “We can repeat October 7 many times, because once you storm, they collapse. This is how it works with Israel. They fight you from afar. When they mujahideen stormed [Israel], they did not do it right away. First, they shot the cameras on the fences. Then, they sent UAVs towards the watch towers, which activated in the Gaza Envelope settlements, and the settlers, as well as the soldiers, went down to the bomb shelters.”
- “They did not expect a ground assault, because they couldn’t imagine that any Arab would dare to attack them. They were bullheaded because of how they defeated the Arab armies. But today, things have changed. Today, the Arab fighters storm in. They stormed [the Gaza Envelope] and tomorrow, they will storm the Galilee. They will storm in from wherever they can. We can defeat them. The world has changed.”
*Translations provided by The Middle East Media Research Institute
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