Arabic → English transcript

If Yahya Sinwar were still alive, what would you say to him?

Go to Darko, man — go and sit in Darko with me, with me. You're a crazy man.

By the way, this is his colleagues' view of him.

He made that crazy decision with someone like Yahya Sinwar behind him.

Yahya Sinwar is known to be unstable.

You were part of Hamas's leadership, but you left the group relatively early — around the mid-nineties.

You also belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Who stole the lives of the people in Gaza?

Is it Israel? Is it Hamas, which is said to have given Israel the pretext for October seventh?

Or the silence of the world and the international community?

Or the silence of the world and the international community?

You could say it's all mixed together, but the most dangerous part was the start of the war.

Hamas sparked the war, and Israel seemed to be waiting for it.

It had been waiting for a long, smoldering war.

It seems that Hamas has ended as a political and military force in the Gaza Strip.

And it will not return — nobody here wants Hamas.

Would you prefer death to the situation you're in now?

For me, I don't prefer death over my situation; I would rather die than remain silent.

I must explain my people's story, raise my people's voice, and defend the oppressed among my people.

So if that is the price of death, let it be.

No problem. As for me, I don't prefer death. No — I'm not a nihilist; I'm a fighter.

I fight for myself and for my people, and in fighting and wars there are martyrs.

But that's all there is to it. As for being nihilistic, no.

I love my country, I love my people, and I love life.

But if the price of life is silence, then no.

Humanity has become absent in Gaza; it's all talk of death and killing.

People have died from hunger, from the bombing, from the cold, and from internal strife.