Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan: October 7 Marked The Beginning Of The War To Eliminate The Zionist Entity From Palestine - The Next Step Is Always Larger, More Important; Israel Has No Future In The Region

In an October 24, 2024 appearance on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon), Osama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas political bureau, stated that the October 7 attack represented the first step in the campaign to eliminate the "Zionist entity" from Palestine. He emphasized that Hamas is not focused on repeating the events of October 7, but rather on advancing to the next phase, which he described as "larger, more profound, and more important." Hamdan further asserted that "Israel has no future in the region."

Osama Hamdan: "The resistance will not allow the region to be organized in accordance with Israel's interests. As for guaranteeing that October 7 will not happen again – who says that in the next phase, we will be thinking only within the scope and confines of October 7? When we achieve something and we take a step forward, we do not think about repeating that step – we think about the next step, and the next step is always larger, more profound, and more important.

"October 7 marked the beginning of the war of liberation – the war to eliminate the Zionist entity from the Land of Palestine. Blinken – and all those who pinned their hopes on Israel – need to understand that Israel has no future in the region under any circumstances, and even if today it acts with tyranny and its army acts criminally, this tyranny and criminality will only be a curse for Israel."