The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhe assured this Thursday, in a new recorded announcement after confirmation of death of Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 attacks, Yahya Sinwar, who “It is not the end of the war in Gaza; it is the beginning of the end.”
After publishing a 4-minute video in Hebrew a few hours ago confirming the death of the leader of the Islamist group in which he announced that it was “the beginning of the day after Hamas,” Netanyahu published a new video recorded in English where he assured that “although it is not the end of the war in Gaza, it is the beginning of the end.”
“Yayha Sinwar is dead. He was killed in Rafah by soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),” stressed the prime minister, who sent a message to Gazans: “This war can end tomorrow if Hamas lays down its weapons and returns our hostages.”
To date, Hamas has, according to the prime minister, 101 hostages in Gaza from 23 countries and Israel “will do everything possible to return them home.”
The deaths of Hezbollah leaders
Furthermore, the prime minister took the opportunity to remember that they have also assassinated the leader of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group, Hasan Nasrallahand his second, Hashem Sadi al Din. They are joined by the head of the Hamas political bureau since 2017, Ismail Haniyeh (killed in Iran in an attack attributed to Israel), and the leader of the al-Qasam Brigades (Hasan’s armed wing) Mohamed Deif, among others. .
“The kingdom of terror that the Iranian regime has imposed on its territory and in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen it will also end,” 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 again, in the clearest way: Hamas will no longer govern Gaza. “This is the beginning of the day after Hamas and this is a chance for you, the residents of Gaza, to finally free yourself from its tyranny.”
Sinwar was elected leader in 2017
Born in 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp, 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 and since last 6 November 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 planning 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.
The Army and the Shin Bet, the internal security agency, reported that the Hamas leader died yesterday, Wednesday, October 16, in a military operation in the south of the enclave, in the Rafah area, bordering Egypt, after achieving intelligence information pointing to the location of “high-ranking Hamas members” in the area.
Israeli media point out that Sinwar would have remained hidden with Israeli hostages in the tunnels of the Strip until late August, when Hamas murdered six kidnapped people in Rafah a day before Israeli troops approached them.
