Overview

• Mousa Abu Marzouk, Hamas’s longtime foreign-relations chief based in Qatar, defended the Oct. 7 attacks as “resistance to occupation” and said the group had “fulfilled its national duty.”
• Pressed on whether the attacks advanced Palestinian aims, Marzouk cut off the live interview and told the host, “Go to hell,” before walking out.
• The confrontation aired on Al-Ghad’s With Wael and quickly spread across social media.
• The episode followed Marzouk’s earlier comments to The New York Times expressing regret over Oct. 7, which Hamas later described as incorrect and taken out of context.
• Fatah spokesperson Jamal Nazzal condemned Marzouk’s remarks, and commentators read the outburst as a sign of internal strain, as Israel approved and signed the first phase of a Trump-brokered ceasefire involving hostage-prisoner exchanges.