British journalist Piers Morgan conducted a tense interview with Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hamad on his show Piers Morgan Uncensored, in which he directly confronted the senior Hamas official over the group's central claims regarding October 7, 2023.
The confrontation centered on Hamad's insistence that Hamas did not deliberately target civilians during the cross-border attack that killed approximately 1,200 people. When Morgan presented documented evidence of the Nova music festival massacre, targeted home-to-home killings, and the kidnapping of hostages including Holocaust survivors and an infant, Hamad maintained that Hamas committed no crimes, only "maybe some mistakes."
Hamad repeatedly characterized Hamas as a "liberation organization" that "never commit[s] crimes" and never kills civilians. According to Hamad, there were "no commands to kill civilians or to kill women or to kill children," and that any civilian deaths resulted from individual mistakes, not organizational policy. He claimed Hamas was operating under the belief that "humanity, law, ethics and morality" guide its actions and that Islamic principles prohibit violence against civilians.
The Hamas official framed October 7 as resistance against occupation aimed at lifting the siege on Gaza and taking Israeli soldiers as hostages to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention. He suggested that some Israeli civilian deaths may have been caused by Israeli military forces firing in the area and urged examining Israeli military investigations into the events.
Morgan rejected these characterizations, stating directly that Hamas crossed "every single moral, ethical and humanity line." He cited specific documented atrocities including the deliberate targeting of civilians at the music festival, the kidnapping of hostages with particular vulnerability (including elderly Holocaust survivors), and systematic home-to-home killings. Morgan characterized Hamad's denial of deliberate targeting of civilians as a "brazen lie."
When Morgan confronted Hamad with his own past public statements—in which he declared Hamas would repeat October 7-style attacks "again and again" and described being "wedded to annihilating Israel"—Hamad framed these remarks as a natural response to 80 years of Palestinian occupation and suffering. He did not clearly renounce the earlier rhetoric in available excerpts, instead reiterating that resistance to occupation was a "duty" that must continue "again and again."
On the question of hostage treatment, Hamad claimed Hamas treated Israeli hostages "very, very kind," providing food and following Islamic principles governing the handling of captives.
