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Warrior With A Just Cause Dies As Such
Wednesday's death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will be noted as a significant victory for the resistance.
Sinwar's death was announced by the army of the 'Zionist entity' and its defense minister, not by its leadership in form of prime minister Netanyahoo. This points to a significant discord between them.
The Times of Israel describes his death:
[Sinwar] was not being directly targeted, and troops only realized that one of the three terrorists killed in the incident was apparently Sinwar when they inspected the scene on Thursday morning.
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After the three terrorists were spotted, fired at and injured, two headed into one building and the third, who turned out to be Sinwar, went into another, the military said. The other two terrorists were apparently bodyguards of Sinwar’s and had been moving in front of him, clearing his way. IDF tanks and other forces opened fire on both buildings.
Sinwar then went up to the second floor. A tank fired another shell at the building, and an infantry platoon moved up to search. Sinwar threw two grenades, one of which exploded. The soldiers withdrew, and a drone flew in to search the room. It found a man with his arm injured and his face covered — Sinwar — who threw a wooden stick at the drone. Another tank shell was fired at the man, killing him.
On Thursday morning, troops searching the building looked at the face of the slain terrorist whom the drone had spotted, and noticed that he resembled Sinwar. The Shin Bet took DNA and part of his finger to verify his identity. No hostages were with Sinwar at the time.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed in a Thursday night press conference that the military “identified him as a terrorist in a building” and did not know it was Sinwar. “We fired on the building and went in to search. We found him with a flak jacket and a gun and NIS 40,000.”
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Sinwar reportedly recently renewed contact with mediators for a potential hostage-ceasefire deal after weeks of silence that had stirred speculation he might have been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The military published a video taken by the drone as well as video and pictures taken after Sinwar was found dead.
The drone footage confirms the description above. Its publication is highly significant:
jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill – 20:50 UTC · Oct 17, 2024
For a year, Israel has portrayed Sinwar as a coward hiding in tunnels surrounded by hostages. And they will continue to portray him that way. But the details of his death they’ve released will solidify his image as fighting Israel to the end.
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Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman – 3:55 UTC · Oct 18, 2024
The Israeli genocidal psychopaths broadcasted the final moments of martyr al-Sinwar's life, hoping to undermine the morale of those who support the resistance. Who was the fool that advised them to do so?
His back to the camera, wearing a keffiyeh, he throws a stick—like a modern-day Hanzala. Wounded, alone, battered, yet fighting to his last breath. Just like Palestine.
This very footage turned al-Sinwar into a new Palestinian icon, filling our hearts with nothing but pride and dignity.
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Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah – 22:19 UTC · Oct 17, 2024
"The greatest gift the enemy can give me is to assassinate me. I submit myself to martyrdom for God at his hands. I'm 59 years old, and I much prefer to be martyred by an F-16 or by rockets, than die of corona or a heart attack…I prefer to die a martyr" -Yahya Sinwar in 2021
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Hind Hassan @HindHassanNews – 20:06 UTC · Oct 17, 2024
This was my [Sinwar] interview w @lalarian. It's his last ever on-camera interview. Everyone told us he was in hiding as it was just days after an assassination attempt during 11 days of Israeli bombardment in 2021. We found him walking down a street, so we stopped him & asked for an intv
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How Hamas' Leader in Gaza Reacted to the Ceasefire (video, 2021, English subs) – VICE News
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Sinwar's death will not end the resistance:
Helena Cobban @helenacobban – 23:54 UTC · Oct 17, 2024
I’m old enough to remember the Israelis’ killing spree of 2003-04 when they murdered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, Ismail Abushanab & numerous other top leaders of #Hamas… & they imagined they had thereby “solved” the problem of Palestinian resistance to their brutal colonial rule…
The war continues:
5 soldiers killed, several more hurt amid fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon – Times of Israel
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Hala Jaber @HalaJaber – 22:43 UTC · Oct 17, 2024
🔴IMPORTANT🔴 Looks like a new phase will be starting soon in Lebanon.
“Based on the directives of the resistance leadership, the Islamic Resistance Operations Room announces the transition to a new & escalating phase in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy, which will be discussed in the events of the coming days.”
RIP Yahya Sinwar
Reposted from Palestine thread:
Was researching the details re the US B2 strikes on Ansar Allah, and came across this, a reasonable summary of events with embedded links, worth reading:
US long-range B-2 stealth bombers target underground bunkers of Yemen’s Houthi rebels
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military unleashed B-2 stealth bombers to target underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday, a major escalation in the American response to the rebels’ attacks on Mideast shipping lanes that appeared to be a warning to Iran as well.
While it wasn’t immediately clear how much damage the strikes caused, the attack appeared to be the first use of the B-2 in combat in years and the first time the flying wing targeted sites in Yemen.
In announcing the strikes against the Houthis, who have been attacking ships for months in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a point to offer a warning likely heard in Tehran as well.
“This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened or fortified,” Austin said.
Iran, the Houthis’ main benefactor, has targeted Israel with ballistic missile attacks twice over the past year. The B-2 would be used in any American attack on hardened Iranian nuclear facilities like Natanz or Fordo given it is the only aircraft in service that can drop the GBU-57, known as the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.”
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The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) “bunker buster” bomb used by the United States Air Force.[2] It is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. Due to its size (6 meters length and a weight of over 12 tonnes) it can only be carried by large bombers—for instance, the B-2 Spirit
The aircraft are based at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri and typically conduct long-range strikes from there, though some B-2s were in Australia in September .
Which led to just published in AU, by their ABC, this:
(Australian) Northern Territory air base used as staging ground for US strike on Houthi weapon stores (RAAF base Tindall)
The Department of Defence has confirmed Australia provided support for the US strikes on underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels “through access and overflight for US aircraft in northern Australia”.
The US said its strikes were ordered by President Joe Biden to degrade the Houthi weapons stores and send a message to “our adversaries”, which includes Iran.
An Australian official said the support was “consistent with our long-standing alliance commitment and close cooperation, demonstrating the interoperability of our militaries”.
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The newspaper reported on Friday that the B-2 is the only warplane that can carry the largest class of specially built bombs that can punch through soil, rock or concrete before detonating.
It is not known whether the bombs, known as GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators or MOPs, were used in the mission.
So:
(1) Israel does not have the aerial practical capability/capacity to drop GBU-28/37 MOPs (2300Kg/5000Kg), nor prototype, not yet certified in US Service, GBU-57A/Bs MOPs(14,000Kg) in practice re(2), especially in timed sequenced precision drops, total 85,000Kg.
(2) It is known that a timed precise sequence of ~16-18 alternating probable GBU-10(MK84 PavewayII blast effect(972Kg)) bombs, & at least GBU-37 MOPs, though quite likely, prototype GBU-57A/Bs, ~85,000Kg worth, were used to assassinate Nasrallah & Hezbollah leadership in Sth Beirut suburbs (Haddiyeh(?). Followed by a duplicate further decapitation strike days later re Hezbollah.
(3) This requires strategic bombers which Israel does NOT posses. US does, both the bombers & unique ordnance & capability, as demonstrated re Yemen/Ansar Allah. Open Source B2 spec is lowball 18,144Kg up to 22680Kg, therefore 4, at most 5 B2, in a flight, required to execute the ops, plus, necessity of, stealth CAP escorts.
(4) Therefore the Hezbollah decapitation strikes in Beirut, and mass non-combatant resultant causalities were a direct consequence of US direct belligerence alongside/in support of Israel.
(5) As per the AP article, one or all three strikes were prepped & launched from RAAF Tindal Australia, most likely for OpSec, plausible-deniability purposes, re US direct involvement & the Stealth B2s.
(6) Therefore, AU is no longer an indirect belligerent, re Pine Gap(ISR & drone Targeting), but re the B2s, a direct belligerent.
(7) US & AU exposed as direct belligerents in War Crimes, Illegal acts of undeclared aggressive war, war crimes, and co-participants in support of Israels ‘greater Israel’ Genocide campaign.
(8) Zero doubt that AU is now little more than non-sovereign puppet vassal, a US suborned Military base/bastion as for Diego Garcia or, occupied Germany …
Couped AU Whitlam(Prime Minister/Government)(’75), remorseful Frazer(next PM), & aggrieved conscripted Viet vet/politician Fisher(?) would be turning in their graves …
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 18 2024 8:33 utc | 11
Via Journalist Youssef Fares, and only those current at time of writing:
– The Mujahid Leader Khalil Al-Hayya: The blood of the martyrs will continue to light our way and constitute an incentive for steadfastness and perseverance
Hamas will continue until the establishment of the Palestini an state on all Palestinian soil with Jerusalem as its capital
The martyrdom of the leader Sinwar and the leaders who preceded him will only increase the strength and resilience of our movement
The occupation prisoners will not return unless the aggression on Gaza stops, the complete withdrawal from it, and our prisoners are released from the prisons
Al-Sinwar ascended advancing, not retreating, engaging in the front lines and moving between combat positions
– In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“And never think of those who are killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.”
Military statement issued by:
..::: Al-Qassam Brigades :::..
O sons of our struggling Palestinian people.. O masses of our Arab and Islamic nation:
Al-Qassam Brigades announces the martyrdom of the great leader/ Yahya Sinwar “Abu Ibrahim”, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, who ascended, facing and not retreating, in the most honorable battles in defense of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and of our people and their legitimate rights. It is a source of pride for our movement to put leaders before soldiers, and for its leaders to lead the caravan of martyrs of our people who gave their lives and blood for the sake of Allah and on the path to liberating Palestine, and for its leader to be mar tyred among his struggling brothers, a hero engaged in combat with the invaders who thought that Gaza could be an easy prey for their cowardly army.
The journey of our leader, Abu Ibrahim, was an honorable jihadist journey, during which he was from the founding generation of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and its military and security apparatuses. Then he sacrificed the flower of his youth as a prisoner in the occupation’s prisons for more than twenty years before he was released with his head held high in the “Wafa al-Ahrar” deal. Once he was released from prison, he insisted on continuing the journey of jihad and did not taste rest. He supervised the movement’s military work in the three regions and had an important role in the path of unifying the resistance fronts on the road to Jerusalem. Then he headed the movement in Gaza, so that his leadership period constituted a qualitative shift in its advocacy, political and military journey that culminat ed in “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and in the path of national relations and joint resistance work, before heading the movement at home and abroad following the martyrdom of the great leader Ismail Haniyeh.
When the resistance factions, with Hamas at their core, decided to enter this great and decisive battle in the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle and in the course of our nation, they knew that the price of liberation was very high and had been paid by all peoples before they were liberated from their occupiers. They were prepared to lead the ranks of the sacrificing people at the heart of their people, so they presented leaders and soldiers, refusing to submit to the enemy or remain silent about its injustice and plundering of our people’s legitimate rights. Our jihad will not stop until Palestine is liberated, the last Zionist is expelled from it, and all our legitimate rights are restored. The best evidence of this is that our people did not break or surrender a year after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, despite the enormous price they paid and despite the brutal Zionist crimes of genocide.
This criminal enemy is delusional if he thinks that by assassinating the great leaders of the resistance such as Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, Al-Arouri and others, he can extinguish the flame of the resistance or force it to retreat. Rather, it will continue and escalate until the legitimate goals of our people are achieved. Martyrdom is the highest desire of our leaders, and their blood will be a beacon that lights the path to liberation and a fire that burns the aggressors. Our leaders have left behind hundreds of thousands of mujahideen from our people and our nation who are determined to confront the Zionist occupation until Palestine and Al-Aqsa Mosque are cleansed of its filth and swept from our land, God willing.
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom…
The Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades Palestine
– Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: With great pride and honor, we mourn the great national leader, the engaged head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas”, the engineer of the epic of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, and the most prominent symbols of the Palestinian struggle, the martyr hero “Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar”
– Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhalah: Today we mourn a great and distinguished leader of our Palestinian people, who spent his life struggling, advancing the ranks and fighting for the sake of God, he did not hesitate or weaken, and he did not abandon his weapon, the great leader Yahya Sinwar, with whose name is associated the greatest battle that the Palestinian people have fought throughout their long struggle, it is the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa with all the meanings of heroism, sacrifice and redemption that it carries.
Today we bid farewell to Abu Ibrahim, a leader and a martyr. The martyrs are alive with their Lord, receiving sustenance, and alive in our jihad march towards Jerusalem, and our banners are high and do not bow.
-The Palestinian people and the resistance will remain faithful to the line of resistance, and loyal to the spirit of the great leader Yahya Sinwar, the icon of jihad and resistance, and they will carry his banner and his spirit.
– In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
{Among the believers are men true to what they promised God. Among them is he who has fulfilled his vow [to the death], and among them is he who awaits [his chance], and they have not changed [their commitment] in the least.} – God Almighty has spoken the truth.
Statement issued by the leadership of the Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades:
With the highest expressions of pride, honor, determination, resolve, and steadfastness on the path of jihad and resistance, the Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, represented by its Secretary-General, the Mujahid brother Abu Yasser al-Shishniyeh, its central leadership, and all its organizational frameworks, mourn to the masses of our people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, the inspiring martyr, the great Islamic jihadist leader:
Hajj Yahya al-Sinwar “Abu Ibrahim”, Head of the Political Bureau To the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” and the leader of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa,
who ascended facing and not turning his back after a life full of jihad, resistance, humiliation and insulting the face of the Zionist entity, its settlers, their cowardly leaders and their agents, as he was in the first lines of confrontation and engagement with the enemy and its soldiers.
The martyrdom of the inspiring leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar facing and not turning his back, pulling the trigger, wearing his keffiyeh and quiver, and in the first lines of confrontation and the lines of fire and engagement with the Zionist enemy, is a great message sealed with pure blood that victory, pride and dignity are only written with blood, fire and gunpowder.
The inspiring leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar will remain the living heart of the nation, pulsating with revolution, resistance and determination, and his name will remain associated with and associated with the image of humiliation and defeat that has covered the entire Zionist enemy entity and its allies, foremost among them the head of terrorism, the United States of America and the unjust West.
We offer our condolences to our people and all the heroes of the resistance and the Mujahideen in the battlefields and confrontation with the Zionist enemy in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied territories in 1948, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran for the martyrdom of the great Islamic leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar, and we affirm that his pure blood will ignite the revolution with flames, fire and a volcano of rage until victory and liberation.
We offer our condolences to our brothers in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, its political bureau and all its Mujahideen and fighters in the Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who are pressing the trigger of pride, defiance and confrontation, holding the banner of resistance and revolution whose blazing fire will never and will never die down.
We pledge to the great Islamic martyr leader Ibrahim Sinwar that we will remain faithful to your legacy of resistance until the annihilation of the evil Zionist entity from our blessed land from its sea to its river.
“And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know.”
The Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah ad-Din Brigades.
– The Supreme Political Council of Yemen: With great pride and honor, we received the news of the martyrdom of the great Mujahid and great leader Yahya Sinwar after a long journey full of jihad and giving.
The martyr Sinwar raised the banner of jihad and stood effectively and steadfastly at the forefront of the oppressed Palestinian people and the Mujahideen in the resistance movements.
The martyr Sinwar formed a solid and strong front in the face of the criminal Zionist aggression until his actions and jihad were crowned with martyrdom in the way of Allah.
We congratulate the Islamic and Arab nation in general and the Hamas movement in particular on this great martyrdom and extend our deepest condolences to his honorable family.
The martyrdom of this great leader and his pure, noble blood will be the fuel that the Zionists will burn in its fire and will increase the determination and resolve of the Mujahideen in Palestine.
– The Popular Front: We mourn the national leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Al-Aqsa Flood epic and one of the most prominent symbols of the Palestinian struggle
– Palestinian National Initiative: Assassination of struggling leaders has never broken and will never break the will of the Palestinian people.
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