“Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Lebanese news outlet LBCI news this week, according to a report and translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released on Wednesday. 

“We must remove that country,” he continued. 

“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth. Because we have the determination…to fight.”

Civilian casualties and the price of war

Hamad continued, talking about the civilian price of the attack that has been paid on both sides of the war. He expressed that the killings at the Re’im music festival were the result of “complications on the ground.”

“Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”

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