Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, said "all of us will be next" if Israel does not eliminate Islamic militant group Hamas.
While speaking about Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Yousef said the crime "cannot be forgiven" and it's "what Hamas wanted to happen from day one."
"They wanted to sacrifice thousands of children so Israel can take the blame ... Hamas misfired," Yousef said, claiming Hamas digs tunnels and bunkers underneath civilian areas including hospitals and schools. "How many people killed at the hospital and they went so fast to blame Israel and the rest of the world listened to them and listened to their propaganda?”
“Nobody’s concerned to check what is true and what is false," he said, warning of the validity of information coming out of the region.
"Whatever that serves our political and short-term interests we go for it,” Yousef said, referring to it as "suicidal."
“Not knowing that we are going against evolution; we are going against the collective consciousness of humanity," he added.
Yousef also warned of global security threats stemming from Hamas and radical Islamists.
“We will set the model, we will give the freedom to so many radical groups around the world,” he said. “If you really care for the global security — and I speak as a person who was part of the counter-terrorism effort against radical Islamists — if Hamas is not defeated in Gaza, it will inspire many groups around the globe. They will see that a few thousands of savages can blackmail the international community, the superpowers, and bring democracies to their knees. Many of them are watching now and many of them are very happy about how the world is responding. And many of them are satisfied to see the state of confusion and fear and anxiety.”
"If Israel fails in Gaza, all of us will be next," Yousef concluded, urging unity support for Israel and opposition to the Islamic militant group.
Yousef commented on his history with Hamas during an interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade.
“They don’t care for the Palestinian people," he said, adding he was born "at the heart" of Hamas. "They don’t regard human life. I saw their brutality first-hand back in 1996 when I spent about a year and a half in Megiddo prison. They killed so many Palestinian people at that time. This is when I decided I cannot be together with this movement.”
