Gaza, “obligatory sacrifices”. Sinwar gloats over the civilian victims of the conflict –

«Needed sacrifices». That is how the chief of Hamas within the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, defines the civilian victims of the continued conflict in a sequence of messages despatched to mediators. And which show how, in response to Sinwar, prolonging the preventing and rising the variety of Palestinians killed is to the benefit of Hamas and its survival. This was revealed by the Wall Road Journal, which solely brings out a few of Sinwar’s messages which might show his want to postpone an settlement on hostages and a ceasefire. “Now we have the Israelis precisely the place we wish them,” he informed Hamas officers engaged in negotiations with mediators from Egypt and Qatar. After which: «So long as the fighters are nonetheless standing and we now have not misplaced the conflict, the negotiations ought to be stopped instantly. Now we have the capabilities to proceed preventing for months.”

There are dozens of messages, seen by the Wall Road Journal, that Sinwar despatched to the negotiators for the ceasefire and to the Hamas militiamen exterior Gaza. In all of them, the newspaper writes, “a chilly contempt for human life emerges” in addition to the assumption that “Israel has rather a lot to lose within the conflict”. In a message despatched to Hamas leaders in Doha, Sinwar additionally drew parallels between the continued battle in Gaza and that fought in Algeria for independence from France, the place a whole lot of hundreds of individuals have died. “These are obligatory sacrifices,” he argued. The identical goes for the three sons of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in an Israeli air strike.

In a letter to him on April 11, Sinwar wrote that their deaths and people of different Palestinians would “infuse lifeblood into the veins of this nation, pushing it to rise once more.” Behind the resistance of the Hamas chief in accepting an settlement with Israel for the ceasefire and the discharge of the hostages in Gaza there’s subsequently a dramatic calculation.