‘I Want to Stop’: Hamas Spox Flees BBC Interview When Confronted On Mass Killing of Civilians In Their Homes

A spokesman for Hamas fled in the middle of an interview for the BBC after he was confronted over the October 7 attack in which Israeli civilians, including children and infants, were targeted, massacred, kidnapped, raped, tortured, and displayed as trophies by Hamas terrorists.

BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega did not pull his punch when asking Hamas in Gaza “political” spox Ghazi Hamad about the heinous attack earlier this month that the American Jewish Committee notes was “the deadliest antisemitic attack outside Israel since the Holocaust.”

At first, Hamad denied any such attack even took place, claiming that instead Hamas attacked military targets. And despite intelligence from Israel and the United States that demonstrate specific instructions for not just targeting but kidnapping and torturing civilians, as well as taped interrogations of captured Hamas terrorists admitting to that intent, Hamad claimed no such directive was in place.

But the spokesman for the group that launched that surprise attack on unarmed civilians, which included a mass slaughter at a music festival for peace, did not stick around to back up that claim when pushed by Bachega, instead pulling off his microphone and running away.

“You say this was a military operation but the result of it was that hundreds of civilians were killed,” said Bachega.

“Yes, because that area is very wide and there are many people there, and there was clashes and confrontation,” Hamad objected.

“It’s not confrontation, you invaded houses,” said Bachega.

“I don’t have details what happened inside. But I can tell you we didn’t have any intention or decision to cull the civilians,” Hamad claimed despite the mountains of evidence, witnesses, videos, and confessions.

Bachegao pushed Hamad on the point.

“How do you justify killing people as they sleep? You know, families?” the journalist asked. “How do you justify killing hundreds of people in–”

Hamad interrupted, objecting weakly “I want to stop this interview. I want to stop this interview,” and tossed his mic away.

Speaking with NewsNation host and Mediaite founder and owner Dan Abrams on Thursday, surgeon and eyewitness Dr. Naama Samet Rubinstein confirmed the beheading of infants by Hamas, a fact that some in the media have repeatedly attempted to discredit.

Clips of the BBC interview with the Hamas spokesman’s retreat went viral on social media on Friday.

Watch the clips above, via the BBC.