“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza. It is the beginning of the day after Hamas,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said triumphantly. Yahya Sinwar was one of the few survivors of the Hamas hierarchy after the killings of Ismail Haniyeh and Mohamed Deif this summer.
After over a year attacks on Gazawith the death of Hamas’ top leader, Yahya SinwarIsrael believes it has dealt a major blow to Palestinian resistance during a military operation on Wednesday in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip.
His death could mark a before and after in the course of the regional conflict: not only has Israel managed to kill the “most wanted man,” but the Palestinian Islamist group has apparently been beheaded, as Sinwar was one of the few survivors of the conflict. the Hamas hierarchy, after the assassination of the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyehand of the military chief, Mohammed Deifthis summer.
“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza. It is the beginning of the day after Hamas,” the Israeli Prime Minister said triumphantly. Benjamin Netanyahua few hours after the army reported that they had “killed three Hamas terrorists” and that there were clear indications that one of them could be Sinwar.
Netanyahu, however, has warned of “the war in the Gaza Strip,” which is escalating more than 42,400 Palestinians killedis not finished yet “with many challenges ahead”; while sending a message to the region, especially Lebanon, where Israeli forces have continued their ground offensive since October 1.
“To Gaza, Beirut, to the entire region I say: The darkness recedes and the light emerges,” the Prime Minister said, before listing the surnames of six Hamas and Hezbollah leaders assassinated by Israel in recent months, including key political leaders –Haniyeh and Hasan Nasrallahrespectively, and military, Mohamed Deif and Fuad Sukr.
Israeli authorities quickly deemed the death of Sinwar, head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as “highly likely” on October 7, 2023, but promoted them to the group’s top leader in August, following the killing of Haniyeh in an attack attributed to to Israel in Tehran on July 31.
The police have indicated that the DNA analysisFingerprint and dental data – data that has been perfectly recorded in Israel since he spent 23 years in prisons – has “confirmed the definitive identification” of Sinwar in all cases.
Born in 1962 In the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the south of the Gaza Strip, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in the enclave in 2017 after building a reputation as a staunch enemy of Israel and implacable against informants, and since November 6 last year he has been the group’s top leader. , which he joined at the age of 19.
In 1989 He was sentenced to four life terms in Israel for plotting the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian “collaborators,” but was released in 2011 as part of the murder. exchange of 1047 prisoners Palestinians for the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Source: EITB
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