Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present

[Dalit]

Sinwar was the so-called mastermind of the 7th Oct attack, now he is dead along with 50,000 more majority of them innocent civilians, the whole of Gaza is in rubble. Now is an opportunity to stop the conflict. I know his death doesn't have any major impact on the ground fighting but a ceasefire will let Hamas live to fight another day and save many innocent lives in Gaza and Lebanon.

Sure thing Hindutva. We will stop the conflict because you say so.

 

[Dalit]

@sumit_123
Why bring Pakistan and Kargil into this thread ffs?

Hindutva.

 

[ghazi52]

Bowen: Sinwar's death is serious blow to Hamas, but not the end of the war​

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, BBC News

Every Hamas leader since the 1990s has been killed by Israel but there has always been a successor

Killing Yahya Sinwar is Israel's biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas in Gaza.

His death is a serious blow for Hamas, the organisation he turned into a fighting force that inflicted the biggest defeat on the state of Israel in its history.

He was not killed in a planned special forces operation, but in a chance encounter with Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza.

A photo taken at the scene shows Sinwar, dressed in combat gear, lying dead in the rubble of a building that was hit by a tank shell

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, praised the soldiers and made clear that however big a victory, it was not the end of the war.

"Today we made clear once again what happens to those who harm us. Today we once again showed the world the victory of good over evil.

"But the war, my dear ones, is not over yet. It is difficult, and it is costing us dearly."

"Great challenges still lie ahead of us. We need endurance, unity, courage, and steadfastness. Together we will fight, and with God's help - together we will win."

Netanyahu and the overwhelming proportion of Israelis who support the war in Gaza needed a victory.

 

[Liquidator]

Quran 3:169

“Do not consider as dead those who are slain in the path of God; rather they are alive and well-provided for in the presence of their Lord.”

We would all be lucky to have a death as worthy and as honourable as Sinwars. Please do duah for him.

I am deeply grieved but content that he is now in a good place. The Kufaar are laughing like hyenas but they laugh at a martyrs death. A man who fought for his people and homeland against colonialist invaders, baby killers and estate agent worshipers.

 

[Unknowntruth]

The Syrian and Saudi who are happy about Sinwar's martyrdom, can we know what your problem is with him?

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They are collaborators with the enemy. They are in the group who fear Iran more than Israel who want to cause sectarian strife between Shia and Sunnis.

Since Hamas is taking help from Shia Muslims, they want them gone. They are afraid now that they’ve been exposed for the rats they are because Shias are the only ones standing up for Palestine. It exposes their treachery.

 

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[ghazi52]

Yahya Sinwar: Who was the Hamas leader?​

Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent

EPA

Israel says its troops in Gaza have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks and the country's most wanted man.

Sinwar disappeared at the start of the war triggered by the unprecedented Hamas attacks, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

That was hardly surprising, as thousands of Israeli troops backed by drones, electronic eavesdropping devices and human informants, tried to discover his whereabouts.

"Yahya Sinwar is the commander... and he is a dead man," declared Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari at the time.

It was assumed that Sinwar spent much of the past year cornered below ground, hiding in tunnels somewhere beneath Gaza with his bodyguards, communicating with very few people for fear that his signal would be tracked and located. There were also fears that he would surround himself with Israeli hostages as human shields.

But in the end, soldiers operating in southern Gaza killed Sinwar inside a building where there was no sign of any hostages being present, according to the IDF. It announced his death on Thursday, after identifying his body using fingerprint and dental records.

"He who carried out the worst massacre in our people's history since the Holocaust, the arch-terrorist who murdered thousands of Israelis and kidnapped hundreds of our citizens, was killed today by our heroic soldiers," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "And today, as we promised to do, we settled the score with him."

 

[ghazi52]

Upbringing and arrests​

Sinwar, 61, widely known as Abu Ibrahim, was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. His parents were from Ashkelon but became refugees after what Palestinians call "al-Naqba" (the Catastrophe) - the mass displacement of Palestinians from their ancestral homes in Palestine in the war that followed Israel's founding in 1948.

He was educated at Khan Younis Secondary School for Boys and then graduated with a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the Islamic University of Gaza.

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Portraits of Israeli children hostages displayed at a rally in Tel Aviv

At that time, Khan Younis was a "bastion" of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, said Ehud Yaari, a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times.

The Islamist group "was a massive movement for young people going to the mosques in the poverty of the refugee camp", Yaari said, and it would later take on a similar importance for Hamas.

Sinwar was first arrested by Israel in 1982, aged 19, for "Islamic activities" and then arrested again in 1985. It was around this time that he won the confidence of Hamas's founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

The two became "very, very close", said Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. This relationship with the organisation's spiritual leader would later give Sinwar a "halo effect" within the movement, Michael added.

Two years after Hamas was founded in 1987, he set up the group's feared internal security organisation, the al-Majd. He was still only 25.

Al-Majd became infamous for punishing those accused of so-called morality offences - Michael said he targeted shops that stocked "sex videos" - as well as hunting down and killing anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.

 

[Strider]

إِنَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we return.

Yahya Sinwar died a true warrior's death.

Heroes live forever. And I didn't even know this guy until now.

 

[ghazi52]

The prison years​

Sinwar spent a large part of his adult life - over 22 years - in Israeli prisons, from 1988 to 2011. His time there, some of it in solitary confinement, appeared to have radicalised him even further.

"He managed to impose his authority ruthlessly, using force," said Yaari. He positioned himself as a leader among the prisoners, negotiating on their behalf with prison authorities and enforcing discipline among the inmates.

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A gunman guards the stage as Sinwar addresses a rally in 2021

An Israeli government assessment of Sinwar during his time in prison described his character as "cruel, authoritative, influential and with unusual abilities of endurance, cunning and manipulative, content with little... Keeps secrets even inside prison amongst other prisoners… Has the ability to carry crowds".

Yaari's assessment of Sinwar, built up over the times they met, was that he was a psychopath. "[But] to say about Sinwar, 'Sinwar is a psychopath, full stop,' would be a mistake" he said, "because then you will miss this strange, complex figure".

He was, Yaari said, "extremely cunning, shrewd - a guy who knows to switch on and off a type of personal charm".

When Sinwar would tell him Israel must be destroyed and insist there was no place for Jewish people in Palestine, "he would joke, 'Maybe we'll make an exception of you'".

While incarcerated Sinwar had become fluent in Hebrew, reading Israeli newspapers. Yaari said Sinwar always preferred to speak Hebrew with him, even though Yaari was fluent in Arabic.

"He sought to improve his Hebrew," Yaari said. "I think he wanted to benefit from somebody who spoke higher Hebrew than the prison wardens."

Sinwar was released in 2011 as part of a deal that saw 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli Arab prisoners released from jail in exchange for a single Israeli hostage, the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

Shalit had been held captive for five years after being kidnapped by - amongst others - Sinwar's brother, who is a senior Hamas military commander. Sinwar later called for more kidnappings of Israeli soldiers.

By now, Israel had ended its occupation of the Gaza Strip and Hamas was in charge, having won an election and then eliminated its rivals, Yasser Arafat's Fatah party, by throwing many of its members off the tops of tall buildings.

 

[UKBengali]

They are collaborators with the enemy. They are in the group who fear Iran more than Israel who want to cause sectarian strife between Shia and Sunnis.

Since Hamas is taking help from Shia Muslims, they want them gone. They are afraid now that they’ve been exposed for the rats they are because Shias are the only ones standing up for Palestine. It exposes their treachery.

Bro, hundreds of millions of Sunnis in Pakistan, BD and Indonesia fully support Palestine. We may not be actively providing military support but will remember who the traitors are.

We don’t care about Sunni or Shia but how good a Muslim and person you are.

 

[LeonBlack08]

We have the greatest Muslims like Nasrallah(martyred), Sinwar(martyred) and Khamenei and we have filthy scum like this.

Madhkhali bootlickers

 

[Unknowntruth]

Bro, hundreds of millions of Sunnis in Pakistan, BD and Indonesia fully support Palestine. We may not be actively providing military support but will remember who the traitors are.

We don’t care about Sunni or Shia but how good a Muslim and person you are.

I was referring to the Arabs. I should have emphasized that.

Arabs are working hand in hand with the Zionists. Go on Tik Tok and watch these traitors as they insult not only our martyrs but Palestinians and Lebanese in general.

Edit:
Also my reply was in reply of Persian gulf about Syria and Saudi celebrating Sinwars death.

 

[UKBengali]

I was referring to the Arabs. I should have emphasized that.

Arabs are working hand in hand with the Zionists. Go on Tik Tok and watch these traitors as they insult not only our martyrs but Palestinians and Lebanese in general.

Edit:
Also my reply was in reply of Persian gulf about Syria and Saudi celebrating Sinwars death.

Yes I know but I still think the common man and woman on the Arab street supports Palestine.

Only the few that benefit from the puppet regimes that rule them have become Zionists and they are loud and get exposure.

 

[Unknowntruth]

Yes I know but I still think the common man and woman on the Arab street supports Palestine.

Only the few that benefit from the puppet regimes that rule them have become Zionists and they are loud and get exposure.

I know the majority of public support Palestine but you still cannot ignore their silence as their brothers and sisters are being massacred. Non-Arabs have done and spoken out more than our supposed Arab brothers.

Their governments are complicit in this genocide and have helped Israel by bypassing blockades and increased trades with this Zionist entity.