Crescent International
Yahya Sinwar succeeded Ismail Haniyeh as the new Political Bureau chief of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.
In a statement issued on August 6, Hamas said that after “extensive and comprehensive consultations and deliberations,” it was decided that Mujahid commander Yahya Sinwar would succeed Ismail Haniyeh as the political bureau leader of the resistance movement.
“Hamas expresses its confidence in brother Abu Ibrahim as its leader during this sensitive phase and the complex local, regional, and international circumstances,” read the statement.
Ismail Haniyeh was martyred in a zionist terrorist attack in Tehran on July 31.
He was in Iran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian.
According to investigation by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, a projectile fired from an external source hit the room where Ismail Haniyeh was staying.
His bodyguard was also martyred along with Hamas leader.
The Islamic Republic and Hamas declared that Israel was behind the dastardly crime and have vowed to avenge his assassination.
Sinwar is a veteran of the resistance struggle and has been directing resistance operations against zionist invading forces since October 7.
He started resistance activities from early days at university.
From 1982 to 1988, he directed and led many popular confrontations with the zionist entity resulting in his arrest several times.
He was first sentenced to six months in 1982 and sent to Israel’s Fara’a prison.
Far from deterring him, Sinwar intensified resistance activities against the occupiers upon release.
He was re-arrested in 1988 and sentenced to four life sentences.
He served 23 consecutive years in Israeli prisons, of which nearly four were spent in solitary confinement.
Such oppressive tactics only helped to steel his resolve.
Born on October 19, 1962, in a refugee camp west of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, he quickly assumed leadership positions among students.
In prison, Sinwar became leader of the High Command of Hamas prisoners in Israeli prisons.
In addition to other resistance activities—such as refusing to give information to his interrogators—he also organized a series of hunger strikes against the appalling conditions in Israeli prisons in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004.
Aware that knowing the enemy is critical for the resistance, Sinwar also became fluent in Hebrew.
He was able to access information in Hebrew to understand the enemy’s mindset.
It is this ability that has enabled Sinwar to formulate a strategy that has frustrated the zionists indulging in genocide in Gaza.
True, the zionists have murdered nearly 40,000 Palestinian civilians—perhaps as many as 186,000 according to a study by the British Medical Journal, The Lancet—but they have failed to achieve any of their military or political objectives.
This is driving the zionists crazy.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal acts are reflective of this frustration.
Even many Israeli commentators have admitted that Israel has lost the war in Gaza and that Netanyahu is digging the entity into a deeper hole.
Sinwar also has a number of political and security-related books to his credit as well as translations from Hebrew such as Shabak Between the Remains, and Israeli Parties.
It is such awareness of Israeli institutions that has enabled him, and thus Hamas, to frustrate zionist plots.
He was released from prison in the Wafa al-Ahrar (Faithful to the free) prisoner exchange deal in 2011.
In exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, the zionists were forced to release 1027 Palestinian prisoners, among them Sinwar.
He immediately set out to plan resistance activities that have continued to this day.
The zionist occupiers should know that if they assassinate one Hamas leader, 1,000 will emerge to take his place.
Sinwar continues to be the zionists’ worst nightmare.
