When you follow what Hamas leaders, their supporters, and their cheerleaders say and write, you see a constant urge to send their own people toward death in the name of martyrdom and steadfastness. Children, women, and men are all included. They do this to create a false picture of heroism and bravery.
You never hear any of these leaders, ideologues, or propagandists say plainly: kill me, kill my children, kill my family.
The call for death always falls on other Palestinians. The people in the camps, the poor districts, and the kids from worn-out families bear the burden.
The families of the top leaders and senior operatives slip away to safety and comfort abroad. This gap between their words and their actions reveals a stark moral divide.
This pattern of preaching sacrifice from a safe distance shows one of the darkest sides of moral rot in today’s Palestinian reality. While families in Gaza lie buried under collapsed buildings, the wives and children of certain Hamas figures stay in hotels across neighboring countries.
Then these same men go on television and social media to demand more blood, more bodies, more wounded and orphaned children from their own people, as though they were reading out figures from a spreadsheet instead of talking about real human beings with names, faces, and lives.
The disconnect between what they preach and how they live has stopped being just personal hypocrisy. It has become a chronic disease, creating a political class and hired guns who profit from the business of death. It is a lucrative trade built on corpses and ruins.
Hamas leaders profit from war
In this twisted logic, death is no longer something forced on people. It turns into a product sold with religious and revolutionary slogans. The Hamas leader, or any similar figure, becomes a war profiteer who turns up the volume on religious and political rhetoric to hide a simple fact. His own children are safe, while other people’s children end up in shrouds.
It should not surprise us that some of these figures show clear signs of psychological disturbance. They seem to take real pleasure in the deaths of their people and keep calling for more suffering and tragedy. One of them even posted a vicious statement that basically said to rip out Gaza’s soul, throw it into the sea, and hang its children on stakes. He did this while sitting secure in the knowledge that his own child’s name would never appear on a list of martyrs and his child’s photo would never hang on a wall of mourning posters.
The real danger is that this kind of language does not come from a moment of rage. It is presented as the highest form of faith and loyalty, as though true commitment to the cause means being willing to sacrifice other people’s children, never your own.
We keep seeing the same pattern. Psychopathic figures insist that an entire captive population must die to defend their project, yet they would never accept the loss of their own comforts. They protect their bank accounts, their golden passports, and the easy lives their children enjoy abroad.
For them, martyrdom has become an empty slogan repeated in speeches and tweets, then recycled to beg for more political and financial support. Each round brings extra aid in the name of Gaza’s resistance, more legitimacy in the name of martyrs’ blood, and bigger platforms on TV channels and online in the name of children’s remains.
The worst part is that this is not some accidental mistake or short-term tactic. It is a deliberate policy chosen by Hamas mercenaries.
The group offers endless victims from its own people, not to win a military victory, but to turn those bodies into tools for gaining international sympathy and forcing diplomatic pressure on Israel to stop fighting after each attack that Hamas launches while deliberately hiding among civilians.
This is not just an analysis. Hamas leaders have said it themselves. In one recorded speech, Yahya Sinwar put the thinking in blunt terms. He declared that he and Hamas, along with the people behind them, were ready to become like the People of the Ditch.
Sinwar reminded everyone that the story is well known, and he repeated that they were prepared to be completely wiped out, down to the last child. He said clearly: we are ready to be killed to the last one of us, to be burned as the People of the Ditch were burned.
Those words leave no ambiguity. The leadership announces its willingness for total collective destruction, including children, and frames it as a noble religious choice. But this ultimate sacrifice is demanded only from the weak, the poor, and the powerless, not from the leader himself or his family, who were sent abroad and kept hidden until death eventually reached him.
That is why these figures find it so easy to talk about the deaths they caused through their own choices as if the deaths were some unavoidable fate to accept, not something to fight against at any price.
They push a soothing religious story. Anyone who dies goes to Paradise, and anyone who survives must get ready for the next round of death. But for the leader and his family, the rules are different. They are the guardians of the project, the vital spearhead that must stay far from harm.
In the end, Hamas, its followers, and its propagandists have built a clear example of political and moral hypocrisy. They shout loudly about martyrdom, but they make sure it always falls on someone else.
In their world, the lives of ordinary Palestinians are not something sacred to protect. They are currency to spend in the market of rhetoric and narrow self-interest. Meanwhile, the lives of the leaders and their families in regional countries and Europe receive special protection, kept safe from danger and untouched by fire.
The painful truth stands exposed. A mercenary class sees nothing in Palestinian blood except a stepping stone to more power and longer-lasting legitimacy.
Anyone with even a scrap of conscience has a duty to call out this hypocrisy without hesitation, to state plainly that human lives matter more than any empty war cry, and that the cause is far too important to stay trapped in the hands of people who exploit it with such cruelty and moral collapse.
The writer is a UAE political analyst and former Federal National Council candidate.