He is considered the mastermind behind the Hamas massacres last October and is at the top of Israel’s wanted list: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. But now Israel has made the Palestinian terrorist organization an offer for Sinwar’s safe departure from the Gaza Strip.
“I am prepared to provide a safe corridor for Sinwar, his family and anyone who wants to join him,” Israeli Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, who is responsible for hostages and missing persons, said in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday.
“We want the hostages back. We want demilitarization, deradicalization and of course a new system for the management of Gaza,” Hirsch said. According to the report, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special coordinator for the repatriation of the hostages put the offer on the table about two days ago. Hirsch did not comment on a possible response.
Hamas Representative: “Victory or Martyrdom”
Sinwar’s whereabouts are unknown. He is believed to be in a vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip. A Hamas official said in mid-January that the leaders in the Gaza Strip would not leave voluntarily. “Either victory or martyrdom,” the Hamas source told the German Press Agency in Beirut. Gaza is their land and the blood of the leaders is no more valuable than that of the people.
Shocking video released from Hamas tunnel
Negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages held by the Islamist Hamas have stalled. Pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mounting from all sides. There are large demonstrations in Israel almost daily, calling on the government to finally free the hostages through a deal. The protests have intensified after the release of images of the tunnel system in which Hamas is said to have held or killed its hostages.
In the video released by the military, military spokesman Daniel Hagari describes the cramped conditions in the tunnel from which the bodies of six hostages were recovered in early September. The path to the 20-meter-deep tunnel leads down ladders from an entrance in a children’s room, Hagari says. He is standing in a bombed-out room with colorful cartoon characters still visible on the walls. The narrow, low tunnel leads for about 120 meters to an iron door. “The hostages were held captive and killed here,” the fleet admiral says in the video, which lasts about three and a half minutes.
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