What immediately comes to mind about Yahya Sinwar is the description of the tortures he carried outpersonally or delegated to his trusted henchmen, those who shared the tunnels and sewers of the Gaza Strip with him for almost a year. Chilling descriptions. It was enough just to be suspected of collaboration with Israel and the gates of hell were opened. When he was in prison in Israel Yahya Sinwar fell ill with brain cancer and for this reason he was operated on and then treated at Shiba Tel Hashomer Hospital, a hospital which is among the top ten in the world.
Massacre of Israeli civilians, newborns burned alivewomen raped and torn to pieces, elderly people and the whole range of horrors that have been cataloged by the Israeli authorities and mostly forgotten, ignored or worse still accused of being fake in the civilized West. These accusations have exceeded every limit of human shame. Let’s go back to the late Sinwar, much will still be written about his death, but for the moment it is worth telling what we already know. It all began when a group of conscripts, just like Gilad Shalit was at the time of his kidnapping, during a patrol in the Tal Al Sultana area in Rafah, not far from the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, identified three armed terrorists and engage in a firefight.
The three split up and the manhunt with automatic weapons begins. One of the three, with a broken leg and a broken arm, takes refuge inside a ruined house and continues shooting from there. He is asked several times with a megaphone to surrenderbut he can’t, the shame would be too great. A drone is flown into the house and the terrorist, who has been under siege for hours, tries to throw a piece of wood at it but hits nothing. Then, finally, a sniper completed the job.
The surprise, when the soldiers realized that they had eliminated number one from the list of the walking dead, was enormous. Fingerprints first, teeth and in the end the DNA confirmed the identity. The surprises did not end with the identification of the monster because in the jacket he was wearing, banknotes in Israeli currency, dollars and euros for a significant amount, counterfeit documents and a complete map of the tunnels of the Gaza Strip were found. Cash and false documents, in fact there was a real one and it belonged to a UNRWA teacher. Why that document was in the hands of the master father of Hamas will be explained by the investigations that will follow even if the United Nations agency already thunders that it wants to discredit it in the eyes of the world. As if it wasn’t already discredited enough with Hamas people on the books of employees with schools and offices used as warehouses for weapons and explosives.
However, UNRWA is not alone, even the International Red Cross has done everything not to do what it was born to do, the Israelis who have been in the hands of Hamas for a year have been waiting for the medicines whose delivery they had guaranteed in Geneva. Medicines later found still packaged by the Israeli military in the cellars of the various hospitals in the Strip. Let’s go back to Sinwar who was caught with false documents, cash and near the borderit is easy to deduce that the great leader was running away, leaving his people to fend for themselves after having done everything to ruin them. After seeing the political leaders living in the luxury of Qatar, the Palestinians must know that even the fighting leader was nothing more than a traitor, someone who had people by the balls with terror, someone who was an all-round terrorist both with enemy who is with his own.
The map of the tunnels, which he had in his jacket pocket, is a hope. The hope that it will reveal the still unknown tunnels where the still living hostages or the bodies of those killed could perhaps be kept. However, Hamas did not die with Sinwaralthough its elimination could be a sort of tombstone on the military structure of terror, the Israeli Army General Staff is aware that there are still several units of the Qassam brigades on the ground, hidden among civilians.
In the current state of affairs these terrorists are certainly uncoordinated with each other and without goals or strategies and, probably, they don’t even know where Israeli civilians are being held. In the short speech before the cameras Netanyahu was clear, Israel provides a way out: Whoever releases the Israeli captives or gives indication of the bodies and hands over the weapons, will be spared. Those who continue to fight will be killed.
Sinwar’s death could, on mandatory parole, open up a new approach to the negotiations that should lead to the release of the hostages and a ceasefire, this is because Khaled Meshal, one of the few Hamas leaders still aliveis considered pragmatic and is not linked to Iran. If he were to take the place of the deceased, something could change both for Israel and, above all, for Palestinian civilians who could finally access international aid without having to pay protection money to their armed torturers.
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