Ex-Hamas minister calls terror group ‘crazy people’ led by Sinwar: ‘they destroyed the Gaza Strip’

A former Hamas minister being held in Israeli captivity is criticizing the terrorist group, calling it a bunch of “crazy people” led by Yahya Sinwar, a man with “delusions of grandeur.” 

Footage of former Hamas communications minister Yousef al-Mansi was published Sunday by the Shin Bet security agency and reported on by the Times of Israel. 

“They destroyed the Gaza Strip. Set it back 200 years,” al-Mansi says in translated excerpts. “There is no opportunity to live.” 

He called Sinwar, the man who masterminded Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 assault on Israel, a “walking dead man.” 

“People in the Gaza Strip say that Sinwar and his group destroyed us, we must get rid of them,” al-Mansi says in the video He added: “I have not seen anyone in the Gaza Strip who supports Sinwar; nobody likes Sinwar. There are people who, day and night, pray that God will free us from him.”