Who was Yahia Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attacks?
– It was him top leader of Hamasa position he reached last July after Israel killed his predecessor, Ismail Haniyain an attack on his residence in Tehran. Since that day it is goal number one of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
—It is considered the architect of the attacks of October 7, 2023in which Hamas killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251. He is also seen as the strategic and military mind of Hamas.
— He was born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp.in the south of Gaza, in 1962. There he spent an impoverished youth in which he witnessed Israeli violence against the Palestinian population.
— He joined Hamas almost from its foundingin 1987, and from a very young age he assumed his radical Islamist ideology, which seeks the creation of an Islamic State, through the armed struggle against Israel, in the historical territory of Palestine (which includes Gaza, the West Bank and Israel) and which opposes the existence of the Israeli State.
— He spent 22 years in an Israeli prison in Ashkelonthe city from which his family was expelled in 1948 by Israel in a massive displacement that Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (or the Catastrophe) and that occurred within the framework of the Arab-Israeli war that concluded with the creation of the State of Israel.
– Was arrested in 1988 and sentenced to four life sentencesaccused of plotting the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli army soldiers and four Palestinian informants. He was released from prison in 2011 following a prisoner exchange agreement in which 1,027 Palestinians were freed in exchange for an Israeli soldier.
— Sources close to Sinwar have assured the Reuters agency that after a year of war in Gaza that has killed almost 42,500 people in the Strip, He never regretted having launched the attack. (Reuters)
