Top Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed in Gunfight with Jews

Andrew Anglin October 18, 2024

This dude did not die in a bombing. He led a shooting raid on the Jews, personally.

Who knows why he did that, but wow. Badass.

The Guardian:

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed by Israeli forces, ending a year-long hunt for the mastermind of the 7 October attack on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.

The Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katz, confirmed reports on Thursday in a message sent to counterparts around the world. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said almost immediately after Katz’s statement was reported by Israeli media that Sinwar had been “eliminated”.

His death represents a major boost to the Israeli military and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as the latest in a string of high-profile assassinations of prominent enemy leaders in recent months.

In a televised statement, Netanyahu said that “today we have settled the score,” describing Sinwar’s death as the “beginning of the end”.

“We have demonstrated today that all those who try to harm us, this is what happens to them,” the prime minister said. “And how the forces of good can always beat the forces of evil and darkness. The war is still ongoing, and it’s costly.”

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The IDF said on Thursday afternoon it was checking whether Sinwar was one of three militants killed during a patrol, but that their identities could not yet be confirmed. By Thursday evening, it confirmed he had been “eliminated”, reportedly in Tel Sultan, a neighbourhood of Gaza’s southernmost town, Rafah, on Wednesday.

The bodies were found by troops and taken to Israel for DNA and dental record testing.

Israel’s Kan Radio reported that the Hamas leader had been killed “by chance”, and not as a result of intelligence gathering. The station also said the bodies were found with cash and fake IDs.

He wasn’t killed “by chance,” he was killed because he was leading gun battles against the Jews, personally. This guy was like a Space Marine.

In terms of the actual meaning of something like this, it apparently doesn’t mean very much. Bibi plays up these killings of top guys, but nothing about these organizations seems to change.

Eventually, the Jews will be able to “defeat Hamas” by simply killing or exiling everyone in Gaza. But that is going to take at least another year, possibly significantly longer.

Of course, it won’t matter what is happening in Gaza when the Jews start the big one with Iran. No one will be paying much attention.

P.S.

The guy was really a badass.

A reader put together some information on him, some life highlights:

• Arrested again in 1985, upon his release he co-founded with Rawhi Mushtaha the Munazzamat al Jihad w’al-Dawa (Majd), an organization that worked, among others, to identify collaborators with Israel among the Palestinian population, which in 1987 became the Hamas “police”. Sinwar’s killing of suspected collaborators with Israel gained him the nickname “The Butcher of Khan Younis”.

• In 1988, Sinwar planned the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and the murder of four Palestinians whom he suspected of cooperating with Israel. He was arrested on February that year; during questioning he admitted to strangling one of the victims with his bare hands, suffocating another with a kaffiyeh, inadvertently killing a third during a violent interrogation, and accidentally shooting the fourth during an attempted abduction, and showed investigators an orchard where the four bodies were buried.

• Sinwar regarded extracting confessions from collaborators as a righteous obligation. He told interrogators that one of them had even said that “he realized he deserved to die.” Sinwar persisted in targeting informants while in prison. Israeli authorities suspected him of ordering the beheadings of two suspected snitches. Hamas operatives reportedly disposed of the victims’ severed body parts by throwing them out of cell doors and telling guards to “take the dog’s head.”

• Sinwar’s time in prison was transformative, shaping his leadership qualities, according to Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official. Sinwar also mastered Hebrew through an online program and extensively studied Israeli news to comprehend his adversary better. He meticulously translated Hebrew autobiographies of former Shin Bet chiefs into Arabic, sharing them with fellow inmates to study counterterrorism tactics. He referred to himself as a “specialist in the Jewish people’s history.” Sinwar once remarked to supporters: “They wanted prison to be a grave for us, a mill to grind our will, determination and bodies. But, thank God, with our belief in our cause we turned the prison into sanctuaries of worship and academies for study.”

• Sinwar played a pivotal role in the negotiations for Gilad Shalit’s release. Despite being part of the negotiation team, Sinwar opposed deals that did not include high-profile prisoners, known as “the impossibles,” such as those serving multiple life sentences. Even after negotiations secured the release of over a thousand prisoners, including some high-profile ones, Sinwar remained adamant. This stance led to a rift in Hamas leadership, with Saleh al-Arouri, another prominent Hamas figure, recognizing the need for compromise. Despite efforts to persuade Sinwar, he persisted, even attempting to orchestrate a hunger strike involving 1,600 Hamas prisoners. His unwavering principles and refusal to compromise complicated negotiations. Eventually, Sinwar’s authority waned as other Hamas leaders negotiated a deal without him, as Israeli authorities had put him in solitary confinement until the deal was reached. He was the most senior Palestinian prisoner released to Gaza among 1,026 others in the 2011 prisoner exchange for the soldier. In an interview with Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV, he expressed determination to continue efforts to free more prisoners, urging the Al-Qassam Brigades to kidnap soldiers for exchanges.

• Sinwar was believed to have overseen the torture and execution (in February 2016) of the Qassam Brigades’ Zeitoun Battalion commander Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was accused of embezzlement, homosexuality, and giving Israel information that led to the deaths of Widad and Ali Deif when their home was bombed by Israel in August 2014. Ishtwi was reportedly whipped, suspended from a ceiling for hours across multiple days, and ultimately killed by being shot with three bullets to the chest.

• On 15 May 2021, an Israeli airstrike was reported to have hit the home of the Hamas leader; there were no immediate details of any deaths or injured. The strike took place in the Khan Yunis region of southern Gaza in the midst of evergrowing tension between Israelis and Palestinians. However, in the week that followed, he appeared publicly at least four times. The most obvious was in a press conference on 27 May 2021, when he mentioned (on air) that he will go home after the press conference (on foot), and invited the Israeli Minister of Defense to take the decision to assassinate him in the following 60 minutes, until he reaches his home. Sinwar spent the next hour wandering in Gaza streets and having selfie photos with the public.

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