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War between Israel and Hamas: Yahya Sinouar is named political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement
War between Israel and Hamas: Yahya Sinouar is named political leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement
(France 2)
Hamas has appointed its new leader. This is Yahya Sinouar, who until now led the movement in Gaza and whom Israel accuses of being one of the masterminds of the October 7 massacres. The Israeli army has promised to find him and eliminate him.
In a tunnel in Gaza behind children, the silhouette of Yahya Sinouar: these are the last known images of the man who has been politically leading Hamas since Tuesday, August 6. Yahya Sinouar was already in fact the real leader, but his promotion remains a provocation towards the Hebrew state. He is in fact the sponsor of the attacks of October 7.
Yahya Sinouar has been hunted by the Israeli army for 10 months. He even went to see a former hostage, Margalit Moses. After spending 23 years in Israeli prisons, he returned to Gaza as a hero and, over time, imposed his supremacy.He was the one who made all the decisions about the war, the control of Gaza and the hostage negotiations anyway.“Israeli authorities say the physical elimination of Yahya Sinwar remains their priority,” said Michael Milshtein, a Hamas expert at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.
