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War between Hamas and Israel: Yahya Sinouar, the number one enemy of the Hebrew State
The Israeli army continues to hunt down those responsible for the October 7 attacks. Among them, Yahya Sinouar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, who experienced Israeli jails. – (France 2)
The Israeli army continues to hunt down those responsible for the October 7 attacks. Among them, Yahya Sinouar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, who experienced Israeli jails.
For the Israelis, he is the man to kill. Yahya Sinouar, the leader of Hamas, whose words spoken two years ago sound like a terrible prediction. “We will attack their cities, we will stab them, we will crush them with our cars“, he declared. Suspected mastermind of October 7, Yahya Sinouar is well known to Israelis. A Hamas activist arrested for terrorism in 1989, he was questioned for hours by Micha Kobi, a former intelligence officer.
“The Butcher of Khan Younes”
“He was very proud of himself and his nickname. It was he himself who told me, I am the butcher of Khan Younes“, he says. Sinouar was born in Khan Younes, in Gaza. He told the police how he killed Palestinians there who collaborated with Israel. “He asked the brother of the person he wanted to murder to dig a grave, then put him in and gently bury him.“, remembers Micha Kobi.
Ill in prison, Yahya Sinouar was operated on for a brain tumor by Israeli doctors. He was released from prison after 22 years, exchanged with 1,000 other Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit. Returning to Gaza, he became the leader of Hamas.