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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
The death of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who has been at the center of the Israel-Palestine conflict, has triggered polarized reactions across the world. For some, particularly in Israel and the West, his death symbolizes a triumph over what they perceive as terrorism, and the hope of moving toward peace. But in Gaza and the broader Arab world, the reaction is the opposite . Many see Sinwar’s life and death not merely through the lens of violence but as part of a broader Palestinian struggle for dignity and autonomy, further fueled by decades of occupation and oppression.
The October 7th massacre is widely cited as the catalyst for Israel’s full-scale retaliation, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians, including children. However, the narrative surrounding that day is now being questioned more rigorously. Initial reports in Western media depicted unverified allegations of unspeakable brutality by Hamas fighters, including accusations of rapes and massacres of infants. But these claims have since been debunked by various investigations, which revealed that much of the violence reported by Israel and repeated by mainstream media outlets was based on falsehoods. This raises the question: what role did these inflammatory claims play in justifying Israel’s disproportionate response?
What unfolded in Gaza since that day has been nothing short of catastrophic. The sheer scale of the destruction from Israel’s military strikes, which indiscriminately targeted civilian infrastructure, hospitals, and refugee camps, bears resemblance to the IDF’s use of the so-called Dhiya doctrine a military strategy invoking overwhelming force when faced with resistance from civilians.
The killing of civilians, particularly children, and the devastation wrought by aerial bombardments cannot be dismissed as mere collateral damage in the hunt for Hamas leadership. Rather, it has led to global outrage and criticism of Israel’s excessive use of force. It a genocide which everyone can see
Sinwar, in life, was both a symbol of Hamas’s resistance to Israeli occupation and a product of the intense pressures faced by Palestinians living under siege in Gaza. His path, which included over 20 years in Israeli prisons, where he was subjected to torture, forged him into a leader who would never entertain compromise with Israel. Yet the blame for the violence should not fall solely on Sinwar. Israel’s long-standing policies of occupation, land confiscation, and its blockade of Gaza are what have perpetuated cycles of resistance and violence. To paint Sinwar’s actions in isolation, without addressing the root causes of Palestinian anger, would be to grossly misunderstand the broader context of the conflict.
Sinwar’s death, however, provides Netanyahu with a chance to claim his much-desired “total victory.” With Sinwar gone, Netanyahu can present this moment as a pivotal success in the war on Hamas. But we must ask: is this truly a victory, or merely a fleeting tactical win that risks further entrenching the conflict? The ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza continues, exacerbated by Israeli military strikes, making any claim of victory ring hollow. Netanyahu’s refusal to consider negotiations, coupled with the far-right demands of his coalition partners, suggests that a ceasefire or meaningful peace is far from his priority.
As we analyze the implications of Sinwar’s death, we must acknowledge that the broader narrative, particularly in Western media, has often been skewed. The disproportionate focus on Palestinian violence obscures the reality that Israel’s military response, including the killing of civilians, is rarely scrutinized with the same rigor. The human rights violations committed by Israel during the recent offensive, the displacement of Palestinians, and the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure are not the signs of a just conflict but of an asymmetric war in which one side holds overwhelming power.
Sinwar’s death will not bring peace to the region. Rather, it risks deepening the divisions and inflaming further violence. Without a genuine attempt to address the root causes of Palestinian suffering—occupation, land rights, and the blockade—Israel may find itself in a perpetual cycle of retaliation, fueled by the rage of those who see no end to their oppression. If Netanyahu wishes to seize this moment to “win the peace,” as some optimistically suggest, he must reconsider Israel’s approach to Gaza, the West Bank, and the Palestinian people as a whole. Only a just peace, one that acknowledges the rights and humanity of Palestinians, will lead to any lasting resolution.
For now, the world watches to see whether this moment of tactical advantage for Israel will be leveraged toward a sustainable peace or used to further escalate the violence that has already scarred so many lives.
Posted by: J Levy | Oct 18 2024 20:40 utc | 156
The dignified manner in which Yahya Sinwar has died, so at the antipodes of our so-called, by force of habit, “leaders of the “Collective West”” ( who are anything but that…), has aroused a sudden interest, both among alternative informants to the usual prestitutes of the media conglomerates of the past years, and among his delighted readers.
If Yahya Sinwar had not died like this, a person, let’s say, difficult to look at (by the superficial standards of beauty of the Western world…), with that emaciated face, alien to a smile, which for sure encompassed all the suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people since the first years of the Nakba, if he had not died like this, many of us would have been left with the image of a “terrorist” awarded to him by the “masters of the world” the other side of the Atlantic and their varied lackeys in Europe…
But, we read in the various and numerous biographies that he was an intelligent and well-educated person, an art student, an arabic philologue, a student leader…we also learn from his adventures that in Hamas’ Gaza there was at least a lively youth, with concerns and blood in its veins who used to meet to discuss “what needs to be done” to improve their lives, those of their people, and their future…and this way we understand why Gaza was like that, despite the overcrowding, that place with such astonishing standards of living with so many universities, hospitals, and even art centers supported by Sinwar himself….
A person who knows his language is capable of not only thinking rightly, but also describe things properly in his head and through his words, and, if moreover, he knows the language of the enemy, he for sure has a right idea on what and how the enemy thinks….
We also know that Sinwar, in addition to many other things he did in his not son long life, was also an author of books, where he did not spare self-criticism of his own movement, Hamas…. constructive criticism obviously made with the aim of improving things as he never left the movement as a disident….
It occurs to me that this Gaza, with such vibrant student movement, open to critical thinking and, therefore, to freedom of expression, together with unsuspected living standards in a de facto concentration camp subjected to the greatest blockades and deprivation, was a bad example for the decadent West where, with apparently eveyrthing in favor, even the wind, surprisingly, what reigns right now is the destruction of society and plain open savage robbery by extractive elites who hold the monopoly of force….How to explain this strident contrast amongst the results of the elites in Gaza, with so few resources, and our “elites”, including those in Israel, as part of the “Western world”? Especially the results of Netanyahu management….
The objective, as usual with the international Zionist mafia, was multiple, because, in addition to stealing their gas, it was necessary to eradicate this Gaza that, together with its determined inhabitants, acted as a beacon in these darkest hours of humanity, of not only endurance, but also good management, similar to what the USSR was in its early days … that is why it had to be destroyed as it was the USSR…so that the plundered Western population, inlcuding Israeli, could not compare themselves with anything…
For the same reason, it has become necessary for these scavenger beasts to destroy those neighborhoods of Lebanon where the people in charge has the bad custom of taking care of covering the basic needs of the people who reside there so that they preserve their life and dignity, and guide them towards a more promising future far from sickness and slavery, contrary to what it is the daily bread for the Western people, especially European one, which walk, blind and deaf, young and old, to willing suicide, and those who will survive direct to slavery.
Bad examples, no doubt, for the extractive Western “leadership” ( which are “leaders” only in Davos and their masters´ colonial authorities organizations, like NATO…leaders only in selling their countries to the transnational Anglo-Saxon capital…), and this is why they are, all along, in this together..
https://t.me/elespiadigital/20859
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Oct 18 2024 21:39 utc | 168
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