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Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid. This is alsonin the context of Israel assassinating and imprisoning more moderate leadership of Palestinians, intentionally leaving only hardliners so they can justify to the western world their ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.

Hamas 1988 Charter and Revised 2017 Charter

The 1988 Charter, which is certainly unreasonable in its fundamentalism with Sharia Law and is antisemitic, does not call for the extermination of all Jewish People nor all Israelis. Hamas wants an end to Israel as an Apartheid State, not an extermination of all Israelis. Under Ahmed Yassin in the 1990's, truces were offered in exchange for Israeli to withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank to the 1967 borders. The 2017 Revised charter explicitly accepts a Two-State Solution of the 1967 Borders. Check Article 7 and 13 of the 1988 Charter to see yourself, compare it to Article 20 and 24-26 in the revised charter.

The slogan From the River to the Sea is about Palestinian liberation that started in the 60s by the PLO for a democratic secular state, not Genocide. The Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad in 1966 maybe, but he's not Palestinian.

History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012

Fathi Hamad's comments were indeed antisemitic and an incitement to genocide. Which he also walked back and was condemned, not supported, by Palestinians and Hamas.

Hamas had a whole conference about what they would do after their victory against Israel.

Hama's is differentiating between Zionist settlers, who are a threat, and Jewish people who want to live in peace, who of course aren't a threat. 16 is certainly not acceptable. While the sentiment for wanting reparations for the decades of destruction by Zionism's settler colonialism, apartheid, and genocide is completely understandable, that's of course the wrong way to go about it.

Nor would Hamas have the final say for what to do once the apartheid is dismantled. They've already agreed to become part of a unitary government that includes all factions that represent Palestinians.

You're also using MEMRI, which is owned and run by Israeli ex-intelligence.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), officially the Middle East Media and Research Institute, is an American non-profit press monitoring organization co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997.

Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature, aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes. It has also been accused of selectively focusing on the views of Islamic extremists while de-emphasizing or ignoring mainstream opinions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute