The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuassured this Thursday that “it is not the end of the war in Gaza; it’s the beginning of the end“This was stated in a new announcement recorded after the confirmation of the death of the Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 attacks, Yahya Sinwar.
“Yayha Sinwar is dead. He was killed in Rafah by the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (FDI)”, highlighted the prime minister, who sent a message to the Gazans: “This war can end tomorrow if Hamas lays down its arms and return our hostages.” To date, Hamas has, according to the Israeli leader, 101 hostages in Gaza from 23 countries and “will do everything possible to return them home.”
In addition, the prime minister took the opportunity to remember that the leader of the Lebanese Shiite formation has also been murdered. Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallahalready his second, Hashem Sadi al Din. Them The former head of the Hamas political bureau joins since 2017, Ismail Haniye, and the leader of the Al Qasam Brigades (Hasan’s armed wing) Mohamed Deifamong others. “The reign of terror that the Iranian regime has imposed on its territory and in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen It’s going to end too,” Netanyahu announced.
In his previous message, the Israeli prime minister had reiterated the supposed importance of the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza for more than a year, and which has caused more than 42,400 Palestinian deathswhile sending a message to the people of Gaza. “I would like to say it in the clearest way: Hamas will no longer govern Gaza. “It is a chance for you, the residents of Gaza, to finally free yourself from their tyranny.”
Israel’s bitter enemy
Born in 1962 in the refugee camp of Jan Yunissouthern Gaza Strip, Sinwar elected Hamas leader in the enclave in 2017. Previously, in addition to a reputation for bitter enemy of Israelthe reputation of being implacable with informants.
Since last November he was the top leader of the group, which he joined when he was 19 years old. In 1989 he was sentenced to four life sentences in Israel for plotting the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian “collaborators,” but was freed in 2011 as part of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit’s exchange of 1,047 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli Army and the Shin Betthe internal security agency, reported that the Hamas leader died on Wednesday, October 16, after having received information revealing the location of some high-ranking Hamas members.
Sinwar was on a military operation in the south of the enclave, in the Rafah area. Israeli media suggest that the top leader of Hamas would have remained hiding with Israeli hostages in the tunnels of the Strip until the end of August, when the organization murdered six kidnapped people in Rafah one day before Israeli troops approached them.
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