BEYOND PARODY: Hamas Celebrates Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Israel UN Official Navi Pillay — Terror Group Praises Award as a Victory for Its Gaza Narrative

Hamas, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of hostages on October 7, 2023, has just issued an official press statement celebrating the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize award to South African jurist Navi Pillay.

The terror group called the decision a “crucial step in the path of international accountability for war crimes in Gaza.”

The statement, dated 9 October 2026, opens with the Islamic invocation “In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” and declares that Pillay’s award “represents a crucial step in the path of international justice and a new international acknowledgment of the crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people.”

Hamas specifically praised her chairmanship of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry and its September 2025 report that claimed Israel had committed genocide.

It also highlighted her earlier work defending African National Congress activists and her role as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Senior Hamas figure Bassem Naim described the award as a “message of hope for Palestinians in Gaza” because it supposedly shows that “humanity continues to resist the forces of evil that target international justice,” according to multiple reports of the statement.

The press release reads:

Honoring Navi Pillay a Crucial Step in the Path of International Accountability for War Crimes in Gaza

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirms that the awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African human rights advocate and judge Navi Pillay, in recognition of her career in defending human rights and promoting international law, particularly in the Palestinian territories, represents a crucial step in the path of international justice and a new international acknowledgment of the crimes committed by the occupation against our Palestinian people.

Pillay contributed to the defense of African National Congress activists in the face of the apartheid regime and served as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This honor reflects a distinguished career in defending rights and holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable.

The findings reached by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Pillay, regarding the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip, and the conclusions of its report issued in September 2025 that a crime of genocide had been committed, underscore the gravity of what our people have endured and necessitate serious international action to translate the documented facts into legal measures and genuine accountability for those responsible.

BREAKING:

Hamas just issued a statement in support of Navi Pillay, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. https://t.co/uxqRMPQ6I5

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) October 11, 2026

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the widespread outrage over the Nobel decision. Jewish leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, condemned the award. Netanyahu stated that the Nobel committee “has lost its moral compass” and had honored “a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.”

UN Watch also criticized the choice, citing Pillay’s prior public statements calling to “Sanction Apartheid Israel,” her letter to President Biden urging punishment of Israel after the May 2021 fighting with Hamas, and her defense of a fellow commissioner who invoked antisemitic tropes about “the Jewish Lobby.”

President Trump responded by noting that he had helped end multiple conflicts while the committee chose a figure largely unknown outside anti-Israel circles who, as he put it, “very obviously hates Israel.”

Pillay herself joked after the announcement that she might share the prize with Trump if people clapped enough, an odd quip given the context of last year’s laureate handing her medal to the American president.

The Nobel Committee cited Pillay’s long career promoting international law and accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Critics point out that the prize has a history of controversial choices, including the 1994 award to Yasser Arafat alongside Israeli leaders, which prompted a Nobel committee member to resign in protest over Arafat’s terrorist record.

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