Hamas is labelled a terrorist organization by the good countries, but they’re also a government running infrastructure, hospitals, etc, all the mundane parts of government in Gaza.
Don’t they have a PR or media-relations team to release an official statement on what the goal was with the festival shooting? Was it planned to be targeted, or did they just happen upon it and start shooting? Or were they just planning on taking hostages and there were security with guns at the festival which caused a shooting?
It was clearly a release valve that had to burst with regards to their living conditions, but what exactly was the plan? Or maybe it was because Saudi Arabia was starting to get friendlier with Israel?
Every time an apartment building is mowed down, the news gets a statement from an IDF guy saying “yup, definitely weapons in there, definitely alerted people and told them to leave, and all the boys there under 16 were actually soldiers”. Where’s the Hamas PR department on this?
I think the resistance media teams are probably more concerned with rallying support from Arabic speakers as opposed to trying to massage the concerns of English speakers who aren’t going to do anything meaningful either way.
I’d think they’d at least talk to Al Jazeera or something