“The martyrdom of brother leader Yahya Sinwar and all leaders and symbols of the movement who preceded him on the path of pride and martyrdom will only increase the strength, solidity and determination of the Hamas movement and our resistance,” the group said.
The Islamic resistance group Hamas ha confirmed officially this Friday dead of its greatest leader, Yahya Sinwarwhich he has praised as one “martyr hero”after Israel announced his death yesterday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Rafah, south of the Strip, a day earlier.
“He rose like a hero, like a martyr, advanced without retreating, drew his weapon, clashed and confronted the occupying army at the front of the ranks, moved between all fighting positions, stood firm and firmly stationed in the proud country Gaza. defend the land of Palestine,” reads Hamas’s obituary of Sinwar.
The message, broadcast through official channels, was also read out in a video message by the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Khalil Hayya, who has warned that his death “will only strengthen the movement even more” and has promised that “the occupation will soon regret what happened.
Al Jazeera published the full video message:
Hamas’s obituary highlights Sinwar as a “noble and courageous man, who dedicated his life to Palestine,” who died a “martyr.”
He also emphasizes that he has been involved in jihadist activities since his youth, that he spent 23 years in an Israeli prison and that he planned the “Al Aqsa Flood” operationas Hamas called the attacks October 2023 in communities in southern Israel, killing 1,200 and kidnapping 250.
Hamas points out that Sinwar joins a “long list” of leaders of the group killed by Israel, such as its founder Ahmad Yassin, Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, Al Maqadma, Abu Shanab, Jamal Mansour, Jamal Salim, or more recently those who the group’s head, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an attack attributed to Israel on July 31 in Tehran, or his deputy, Saleh al Arouri, in Beirut last January.
“The martyrdom of brother leader Yahya Sinwar and all the leaders and symbols of the movement who preceded him on the path of pride and martyrdom, alone will increase the strength, solidity and determination of the Hamas movement and our resistance,” the group said.
Born in 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern 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 with informants. He has been the Gaza Strip’s top leader since November 6 last year. group, which he joined when he was 19 years old.
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 exchange of 1,047 Palestinian prisoners for the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. .
Source: EITB
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