Don't blame Israel for deaths of Gazans; the PA blames Hamas
- Hamas said: "We will fight using the flesh of Gaza's children" – Fatah protests use of Gazans as "human shields"
- Hamas carries out "‘child flesh production'... viewing the Palestinian woman… purely as a factory for producing babies, which they fatten in their farms, and afterwards lead to their slaughterhouses to be slaughtered by the razor-sharp Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) knife!" – official PA daily
- "Palestinian blood has no meaning for Hamas" - Fatah spokesman
- Gazans against Hamas:
"May God take revenge on Hamas. We want you [Israelis] to rule here"
"Hamas killed us. Hamas wounded me and killed us"
"We do not want Hamas, let Hamas' rule fall. If I see a Hamas member, I will kill him… With Allah's help you [Israel] will destroy them. Continue to the end, until you eliminate them"
While the international community is blaming Israel for the tragic civilian deaths in Gaza, Palestinians are correctly blaming Hamas for intentionally using civilians as using human shields. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah published a short video criticizing Hamas for its responsibility for the deaths of Gazan civilians, because they use them as human shields in the war:
Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: "From [Hamas leader] Khaled Mashaal, who described the Martyrs of the Gaza Strip as ‘tactical losses,' to [Hamas official] Musa Abu Marzouq and [Al-Jazeera's] Sa'id Ziyad who said ‘We will fight using the flesh of Gaza's children,' there is a clear way in whose name people are being sacrificed with utmost arrogance and denial. But from the heart of the Gaza Strip voices are rising … Today the Palestinians are demanding that Hamas leave the political scene after it failed to provide the most minimal protection to the civilians and used them as human shields in an endless war."
[Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Facebook page, May 18, 2025]
A regular columnist of the official PA daily echoed this criticism two days later, saying Hamas is preoccupied with "child flesh production," viewing Gazan women merely as "factories for producing babies" so they can be led to "the slaughterhouse" of the war:
"Hamas, has demonstrated the discourse of disaster... The first was broadcasted on the [Al-Jazeera] screen of deceit and fraud: ‘We will fight using the flesh of our children,' as [Al-Jazeera commentator] Sa'id Ziyad said, and the second: ‘The Martyrs, Allah willing – we will create dozens of times as many in their place,' as was said… by their [Hamas] Spokesman Dr. Sami Abu Zahri…
Since they all drink from the same murky swamp, there is no explanation for the story of ‘child flesh production' and so-called ‘rockets'... other than them viewing the Palestinian woman, the bereaved mother, purely as a factory for producing babies, which they fatten in their farms, and afterwards lead to their slaughterhouses to be slaughtered by the razor-sharp Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) knife!"[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 20, 2025]
A top Fatah official condemned Hamas citing several statements from Hamas leaders during the current war that testify to the lack of value of human life for the Hamas terror organization and its evil use of civilians as human shields:
Fatah Spokesman in Europe and Fatah Revolutionary Council member Jamal Nazzal: "Hamas' main demand is to leave it in power and not bringing the PA into the Gaza Strip... In return for this, Hamas is prepared to release all the [Israeli] hostages… It considers this as a gain because the value of the Palestinian person… has no consideration or value according to Hamas' perspective… [Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri] says that in return for the Martyrs, we will produce several times of them. [Hamas Political Bureau member] Ghazi Hamad said that whether Israel will kill 100,000 or 200,000 [Gazans] we will continue. Or as [Hamas leader] Khaled Mashaal said that these Palestinian losses are "tactical losses." … [Hamas official] Musa Abu Marzouq said we did not establish the [bomb] shelters for the Palestinian people in Gaza, because the Palestinian people in Gaza are under the responsibility of the UN and our [Hamas'] responsibility is our fighters… One of the people called Hamdan also says that the Palestinian people will eat the trees, the tree leaves. If we have a white cloth, we won't use it as a white flag, on the contrary. We must use it in Gaza – while he of course lives in Mauritania or Algeria – as shrouds for our children. What more is needed than this to convey a message to Israel that Palestinian blood has no meaning for Hamas."
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, May 20, 2025]
Gazans themselves have been speaking out against Hamas, for some time now. In November 2024, when the Gaza war launched by Hamas had lasted for more than a year, Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo entered the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and interviewed Gazans about Hamas. This video shows some of their statements (longer excerpt below):
Woman 1: "The situation is difficult, may God take revenge on those who uprooted us and killed us in our homes."
Channel 12 reporter Ohad Hemo: "Who killed you?"
Woman 1: "Hamas killed us. Hamas wounded me and killed us. Hamas."
Hemo: "Is Hamas responsible for everything we see here?"
Woman 1: "It's all Hamas, Hamas." …
Woman 2: "May God settle accounts with Hamas. May God take revenge on Hamas. They destroyed our lives. We want you [Israelis] to rule here, we do not want Hamas. The entire people hates Hamas."
Woman 3: "Hamas has ruined our lives. We are a poor people. Hamas has eaten us up. Hamas has taken our [humanitarian] aid, they have taken everything. Hamas' wicked government. Hamas are terrorists. Exterminate Hamas from the world! We are with you! We are with you! We are with you!" …
Hemo: "What about the resistance and Hamas who are supposedly defending you?"
Woman 3: " You are in the right! We do not want Hamas, let Hamas' rule fall. If I see a Hamas member, I will kill him. I swear I was happy when you assassinated Sinwar, who destroyed and killed our children… With Allah's help you will destroy them. Continue to the end, until you eliminate them." …
Child: "May God take revenge on Hamas, may an F-16 missile from the Jews come at them. The Jews are better. Hamas caused a Nakba (i.e., "a catastrophe," usually used about the establishment of the State of Israel) to us. Hamas are sons of bitches. May the Jews kill you. The Jews are better than you. The Jews give us food, bring us everything, allow us a humanitarian corridor." …
Woman 4: "Hamas are Shi'ites, Hamas are murderers, Hamas are bloodsuckers."
Man 2: "We want an Israeli civilian government to rule the Gaza Strip."
[Channel 12 (Israel), Nov. 10, 2024]
For years, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that Hamas uses Gazan civilians as human shields. The current Gaza War is just the latest example. In April, the PA complained that Hamas is holding "more than two million Palestinians hostage… as human shields."
Additional criticism of Hamas was voiced by a group affiliated with Fatah, because it should be the shield for Gazans, but instead turned Gazans into shields for their own protection:
Posted text: "Hamas, which is supposed to be the shield, has become the sword raised over our heads.Instead of defending – it has become oppressive... The people in the Gaza Strip are not only under external siege, but are also under an internal siege... Whoever speaks out receives a bullet, prison, or disappears… We are not against the resistance (i.e., terror), but we are against being used as shields."
["Sons of the Homeland," Telegram channel, April 24, 2025]
A columnist of the official PA daily stressed that Hamas has endangered "millions of peaceful and innocent civilians":
"[Hamas] has become professional in ways of drawing the religious-Talmudic Zionist monster into the homes of millions of peaceful and innocent civilians in private wars, which are meant to achieve sectoral goals."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 29, 2025]
The following are longer excerpts of some of the statements cited above:
Gazans against Hamas: "May God take revenge on Hamas. We want you [Israelis] to rule here"
Woman 1: "The situation is difficult, may God take revenge on those who uprooted us and killed us in our homes."
Channel 12 reporter Ohad Hemo: "Who killed you?"
Woman 1: "Hamas killed us. Hamas wounded me and killed us. Hamas."
Hemo: "Is Hamas responsible for everything we see here?"
Woman 1: "It's all Hamas, Hamas."
Hemo: "All the destruction?"
Woman 1: "All the destruction is on Hamas, Hamas."
Woman 2: "May God take revenge on Hamas."
Hemo: "What?"
Woman 2: "May God settle accounts with Hamas. May God take revenge on Hamas. They destroyed our lives. We want you [Israelis] to rule here, we do not want Hamas. The entire people hates Hamas."
Hemo: "If you speak against Hamas, what will happen?"
Woman 2: "They will kill us. Hamas are terrorists. All of you, say it together with me: ‘Hamas are terrorists.'"
Crowd: "Hamas are terrorists."
Woman 3: "Hamas has ruined our lives. We are a poor people. Hamas has eaten us up. Hamas has taken our [humanitarian] aid, they have taken everything. Hamas' wicked government. Hamas are terrorists. Exterminate Hamas from the world! We are with you! We are with you! We are with you!"
Hemo: "You are with us? In other words, with Israel."
Woman 3: "With Israel, all good things come from you. My husband worked for you, all the good is with you, you are the blessing."
Hemo: "What about the resistance and Hamas who are supposedly defending you?"
Woman 3: " You are in the right! We do not want Hamas, let Hamas' rule fall. If I see a Hamas member, I will kill him. I swear I was happy when you assassinated Sinwar, who destroyed and killed our children… With Allah's help you will destroy them. Continue to the end, until you eliminate them." …
Child: "May God take revenge on Hamas, may an F-16 missile from the Jews come at them. The Jews are better. Hamas caused a Nakba to us. Hamas are sons of bitches. May the Jews kill you. The Jews are better than you. The Jews give us food, bring us everything, allow us a humanitarian corridor."
Woman 4: "May God take revenge on Hamas, and the cursed day they came to us, slaughter them! Slaughter Hamas! Kill them. We do not want them."
Hemo: "But Hamas is part of you, they are Palestinians."
Woman 4: "Hamas are Shi'ites, Hamas are murderers, Hamas are bloodsuckers."
Man 3: "Hamas are sons of bitches, this is an ISIS terror organization, even more difficult than ISIS. Screw their sisters. Screw the corpse of Sinwar's sister. Brother of a bitch. Hamas shot us."
Hemo: "Hamas shot you?"
Hemo: "They shot you in the leg?"
Man 3: "Yeah, to steal our aid, the sons of bitches. We have nothing to eat. They steal everything, the sons of bitches, and hide."
Man 3: "Five months ago an aid package came to me and they stole it. They shot me because I want to eat and bring food to my kids."
Man 2: "We want an Israeli civilian government to rule the Gaza Strip."
[Channel 12 (Israel), Nov. 10, 2024]
Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: "Hamas, the children of Palestine, and the Talmudic knife!"
"The armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, known as Hamas, has demonstrated the discourse of disaster and Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), …and the discourse of heresy against life, knowledge, and the sanctity of the human soul, using two sentences. The first was broadcasted on the [Al-Jazeera] screen of deceit and fraud: ‘We will fight using the flesh of our children,' as [Al-Jazeera commentator] Sa'id Ziyad said, and the second: ‘The Martyrs, Allah willing – we will create dozens of times as many in their place,' as was said in these words and in shallowness by their [Hamas] Spokesman Dr. Sami Abu Zahri.
There is nothing wrong in also noting the words of their [former Hamas] Minister [of Interior and National Security in Gaza and Hamas Political Bureau member] Fathi Hammad from 2016, when he openly expressed his pride in the production of scrap pipes, which he called rockets: ‘Hamas is prepared to export the rockets produced by its military wing to the Arab armies, so that they will fight Israel with them.' The nonsense reached its peak when he said that ‘Hamas has left a remarkable mark on military production, which is equivalent in its rocket production to the international military factories.'
In this regard, and since they all drink from the same murky swamp, there is no explanation for the story of ‘child flesh production' and so-called ‘rockets'... other than them viewing the Palestinian woman, the bereaved mother, purely as a factory for producing babies, which they fatten in their farms, and afterwards lead to their slaughterhouses to be slaughtered by the razor-sharp Talmudic (i.e., Jewish) knife! …
Our model is the path and discourse of the [PA] president, the man, Mahmoud Abbas, who said: ‘It's impossible that our Martyrs and wounded would become mere numbers or tactical losses, as those who caused a Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and a coup (refers to 2007 Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip -Ed.) claim. The loss of one of our children is a disaster from our perspective, and all the more so the loss of all these victims."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 20, 2025]
Posted text: "Hamas, which is supposed to be the shield, has become the sword raised over our heads.Instead of defending – it has become oppressive... The people in the Gaza Strip are not only under external siege, but are also under an internal siege... Whoever speaks out receives a bullet, prison, or disappears.
Every day we see how the [Israeli] hostages have become tools, not human beings (refers to hostages held during Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below -Ed.). They have turned into playing cards, and every delay in handing them over signifies new bloodshed. O people, these are human beings, souls, not bargaining chips…We are not against the resistance (i.e., terror), but we are against being used as shields, and against oppression…
The hostages – they need to release them because continuing to hold them not only prolongs the war, [but also] makes it wilder."
["Sons of the Homeland," Telegram channel, April 24, 2025]
Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily
"[Hamas] has become professional in ways of drawing the religious-Talmudic Zionist monster into the homes of millions of peaceful and innocent civilians in private wars, which are meant to achieve sectoral goals. Afterwards they gave the religious Zionist system, led by [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, the excuse for committing genocide (sic., refers to Hamas' Oct. 7 war on Israel; see note below): more than 200,000 Martyrs and wounded to date, and the destruction of more than 80% of the Gaza Strip."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 29, 2025]