A host on the Saudi Al-Arabiya channel has challenged a senior Hamas official over the terror group's tactics in the current war.
In an interview aired Wednesday night, Rasha Nabil questioned the timing of the missile barrage launched from Rafah toward Israeli civilians as the IDF was advancing toward the city.
In response, Razi Hamed, a member of Hamas' political bureau and a close associate of the terror group's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, made the unsubstantiated claim that Israel was committing "massacres" in other cities in the strip as well as in the West Bank even though, as he claimed, no rocket attacks were conducted from there. "Does that not justify it? It's a criminal, cruel, Nazi state," he said.
Dissatisfied with Hamed's response, Nabil pressed on, asking whether there was "a specific purpose, a calculated aim, a political goal" to the Rafah missile launches that were otherwise perceived as supporting Israel's claim of Rafah being a terror hub sheltering Hamas terrorists.
Again making an unsubstantiated claim, Hamed insisted that Israel was a state "founded on crime" and, therefore, "does not need justification for its killings."
Israel considers the Rafah operation vital to achieving the two goals it set on Oct. 7: to destroy Hamas and secure the release of the over 100 hostages still held captive by the terror organization, many of them considered to be held in Rafah.
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Nabil is known to challenge senior Hamas officials in her interviews. Just last week, she interviewed Hussam Badran, also a member of the terror group's political bureau, about the blood on captured IDF female soldiers and "violent discourse" toward them.
Badran attempted to justify the terrorists' behaviors by pointing out that the events occurred on a military base, rather than a civilian area. He even tried to suggest that no violence against the soldiers can be observed in the footage, at which point Nabil interjected, saying, "No, there are female soldiers with blood on their faces… and there is violent speech toward them documented in video and audio."
