my guest today is hamas spokesman ghazi hamad.ement's rhetoric is unbending, but do the palestinian people long for new ideas? ghazi hamad in gaza city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. let me ask you a simple question. when the people of gaza ask you how you and the hamas movement are going to make their lives better, what do you say? i think we are struggling, we are working day and night in order to ease the life of people in gaza here. but i think people there understand very well that the reason of this crisis is occupation, is the policy of the siege, is the policy of the blockade, is the pressure on gaza every day, because you know, gaza — israel looks to gaza as a hostile region, and they try to keep gaza under siege, blockade, sanctions, and striking every day. i think we are trying to stop this. i think we try to do that through two tracks — first of all, reconciliation, in order to have one authority, one political regime, one system, and also to be open to the world and also we are working on the track of the

a dangerous one artery for us at the helm the israel gaza border howry thank you for that well ghazi hamad is a senior hamas official he says palestinians will never surrender until israeli up israeli oppression ends. it's not is it that we can say that c. is for understanding will. resolve the problem now we have the bigger problem is called a corporation is called a seach and then look at in gaza maybe sometimes you have some kind of tactics his work tactic understanding but the from time to time the round of violence and round of confrontations come back again so i think if they if the palestinians in gaza are not the free people are could not go freely people could export and import people could move freely have get free access i think this round cycle of violence will continue as it should understand that. the brother of gaza is political is not a committee or that it is not by is in the left the pool of people or they're just given for sale it is or open the crossings or including the fishing zone i think we have a policy now as we are looking to end the occupation and to put in for