Dr. Khaled Al-Qaddoumi has accused the Jewish state of genocide and called for its suspension from the UN
The international community must sever all economic ties with Israel over its actions in Gaza and should question its membership of the United Nations, the Hamas representative in Iran has told RT.
In an interview released on Wednesday, Dr. Khaled Al-Qaddoumi accused Israel of genocide and undermining peace efforts.
His remarks came amid Israel’s new offensive in Gaza City and following last week’s airstrike on Qatari capital Doha, which killed six people, including a local security officer.
Al-Qaddoumi praised Qatar, which has played a central mediating role between Hamas and Israel since the Gaza war began, as well as Egypt, but said Israel had sabotaged the talks.
“[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu came and killed our leaders and then made a new invasion and he destroyed the residential towers inside Gaza,” he told RT. According to Al-Qaddoumi, Hamas had accepted proposals and was prepared for a full prisoner swap, but negotiations collapsed due to Israeli actions.
He urged the global community to move beyond verbal condemnation of Israel to decisive action and called for a “political decision to make those criminals stop this genocide in Gaza.”
“We should today question the membership of Israel as a member state to United Nations. We should question all bilateral deals with Israel. We should cut all the economic ties,” Al-Qaddoumi urged.
The Hamas envoy welcomed Spain’s recent move to halt defense cooperation with Israel, describing it as the kind of measure needed to increase pressure and open the way for talks. Earlier this week, Madrid canceled more than $1 billion in defense deals with Israeli firms, including contracts for rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles, according to media reports.
At the same time, Al-Qaddoumi criticized the US, accusing the White House of hypocrisy and enabling Israeli aggression. He said that although “everybody was condemning the attack over Qatar” and the “random killing of the common man in the street,” no concrete action followed.
Israel launched its military operation in 2023 in response to the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people and saw more than 250 taken hostage. Over 65,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, according to local health authorities.
