Johan Romin wrote that Swedish journalists had long struggled to understand the situation in Gaza. He claimed that Hamas was driving the recurring wars and many casualties, describing the movement's goal as the annihilation of Israel and the expulsion or killing of the country's Jews. According to Romin, Hamas representatives had said this in interviews, and the movement's actions did not contradict their stated goals. Romin wrote that Hamas had been building tunnels for decades with funding from the Western world, while TV crews did not understand what the work was about. He recounted that he had filmed in Hamas tunnels without then understanding their purpose. In 2015, he claimed to have filmed an ongoing tunnel construction at a street corner in northern Gaza and was arrested and interrogated by Hamas. He also wrote that Hamas had worked to foster a new generation of terrorists and suicide bombers. As an example, he mentioned a studio at the al-Aqsa television channel, where, according to him, there was a Quran on the table and a picture of Goofy alongside a child about to sacrifice himself for the al-Aqsa mosque. #Gaza #Hamas #Israel (translated)
