A year and two months after the October 7 attack, Hamas admits that it's is on the verge of total collapse and that the October 7th massacre actually sealed the fate of the organization.
According to the i24NEWS website, a Hamas leadership source who currently lives in Turkey told the Saudi newspaper Elaph that "the anniversary of the organization's founding – which took place on Saturday – coincided with the organization's decline and defeat in the Gaza Strip and the region. We are suffering from a severe leadership crisis. The 'Al-Aqsa Flood' [the Palestinian name for the October 7 massacre] turned on Hamas and 'drowned' it in a sea of blood and crises."
The report also indicates that "the new leadership in Syria demanded that the Palestinian terrorist organizations in the country, including Hamas, close their offices, hand over their weapons, evacuate their training camps and leave as soon as possible."
As a result, Mohammed Nassr, a senior Hamas political bureau official in Syria, fled with Iranian experts before Damascus fell to the rebels.