Hamas a ‘murderous, brutal terrorist outfit’ with ‘fairly strong support’ among Palestinians

Strategic Analysis Australia Director Michael Shoebridge says Hamas is a “murderous, brutal terrorist outfit” which has “fairly strong support” among a large number of Palestinian people. Released Israeli hostage Mia Schem has given an interview describing her 54 days of being held captive in Gaza. The 21-year-old was snatched by Hamas terrorists from the Supernova music festival on October 7. She describes being attacked and molested, kidnapped back to Gaza, threatened and held hostage by a civilian family before she was released last month as part of a ceasefire deal. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that Hamas has fairly strong support with a large group of the Palestinian population in Gaza,” Mr Shoebridge told Sky News Australia host James Macpherson. “Some of them will have been pushed to be closer supporters of Hamas because of the war, but, really, to think that Hamas are anything but a murderous, brutal terrorist outfit when you hear stories … around the rapes and horrible brutalization of women that Hamas committed on the 7th of October. “The reality of this war and the horror that the Israelis are facing really needs to be weighed in the scales much more than we hear about it in Australia where it’s like helpless Palestinians who are innocents in this, well some of these Palestinians are Hamas terrorists and some of them are enabling the Hamas terrorists.”