Abd Al-Salam Haniyeh, Son of Former Hamas Leader: People Who Came to Gaza in Recent Years Couldn’t Believe How Beautiful It Was, with Its Buildings, Promenades, Restaurants – More than Many Arab Countries; My Father Rejected a State and Investment of Billions in Gaza as Part of the Deal of the Century

Abd Al-Salam Haniyeh, son of former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in late July, talked in an interview with SamaQuds that was posted on YouTube on August 15, 2024 about the beauty of Gaza in recent years. He said that people who visited the Gaza Strip in 2020-2021 couldn’t believe how beautiful it was. Haniyeh said that following the 2008-2009 conflict with Israel, Gaza received world attention through Al-Jazeera and other media outlets, which led to convoys intended at breaking the siege and the tunnels started becoming active. He continued to say that when the Emir of Qatar visited the Gaza Strip in 2012, this was “a time of progress,” and the reconstruction process had begun. Haniyeh stated: “The kind of beauty that was there [in Gaza] could not be found in many Arab countries.”