A co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has denounced the Islamist terrorist organization for causing “destruction and devastation” and apologized to the Palestinian people, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday.

Muhammad Nazami Nasser wrote a Facebook post apologizing to nearly every Palestinian faction for stirring up disunity within Palestinian society. He specifically apologized to “Palestinians within and outside [of Palestine],” former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, and other groups. He did not mention the Iran-backed terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is also based in Gaza and sometimes works with Hamas.

Nasser said he was sorry for the “horror of hatred that lived within me toward [other political factions],” and for his “relentless work so that you would not have a geographical or political place on the national map. … I apologize to you for my biggest dream, that you would all be buried beneath the ground, dead and motionless.”

Nasser blamed Hamas, which he called “the Devil,” for making him believe that his hatred of other factions “would bring me to the highest height of Paradise. … My homeland has been destroyed because I couldn’t comprehend the acceptance of others. And what is worse, I thought I was working with religion.”

He asked Palestinians to forgive him, but acknowledged “it may not be helpful after all this destruction and devastation against religion, the homeland and the people.”

Nasser is a member of “Wataniyyin,” or patriots, a group that works to reconcile all Palestinian factions. He was also a member of the Hamas cell that abducted and killed Israeli soldiers Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon in 1989. He has never apologized to Israel for his actions.

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