2023-11-27 18:01:01
The man who spent twenty-two years in prison and made a bloody rise within the Islamist organization is suspected of being one of the organizers of October 7. He has long been seen by Israel as a “pragmatist” useful in dividing the Palestinians
Published on November 27, 2023 at 7:01 p.m. / Modified on November 27, 2023 at 7:05 p.m.
The IDF claims to have cornered him “in his bunker”. Which would not prevent him, from the tunnels that wind under Gaza, from always being the one who calls the shots in the negotiations around the hostages. After all, this war is his, to the end, not that of the Hamas bosses exiled in their kitsch living rooms in Doha. Since 2017, Yahya Sinwar has been the leader of the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip. The man who, on October 7, opened a new act, already the bloodiest, of the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy.
May 2018. At the exit of the series of checkpoints, the bus chartered by Hamas hums to a stop. The caller is missing from the call New York Times: out of the question to start without the latecomer. Around forty international media were invited that day to a unique event in a charming building in the center of Gaza City: a precisely calibrated press conference by the enigmatic Yahya Sinwar. In the midst of the repolincing operation, the Hamas bosses distributed a number of goodies (scarves in the colors of Palestine and not, an important detail, the sparkling green of Hamas, branded notepads and suspicious USB keys). The promise? An “open conversation with the leader.” Sinwar then begins his first term as head of the Hamas political office in Gaza. On paper, number 2 behind the mastiff Ismaël Haniyeh demoted from above at the head of the international politburo, but de facto new master of the strip of land that the Islamist movement has controlled since 2007.
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