Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who died on October 16 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, “did not commit suicide”. He was shot to death “by an Israeli soldier, it’s clear. Private soldiers, who had been in the army for a year.” This is the reconstruction of the facts offered in an interview with Adnkronos by the Israeli doctor Yuval Bitton, who in 2004, when the number one wanted man in the Jewish state was detained in Nafha prison, saved his life thanks to a timely diagnosis of brain tumor. Anyone who says otherwise “wants to make him a hero, a martyr”, added Bitton, who today will participate in the presentation of Sharon Nizza’s book. ‘7 October 2023. Israel, the longest day published by La Repubblica’, at the Spazio Mastai of the Adnkronos at the Palazzo dell’Informazione and tonight he will be a guest of Porta a Porta.
Based on the autopsy conducted on Sinwar’s body, the cause of death was identified as a gunshot to the back of the head. Next to the body, a weapon belonging to an IDF colonel who died in Gaza in November 2018 was later found. “I feel no joy over the death” of the Hamas leader, but after his killing “for the first time I have hope “. Because “the conditions posed by Sinwar were not acceptable to Israel”, while now “we have a great opportunity to reach a compromise and an agreement, it is time for dialogue”, Bitton said. For Sinwar, “Israel simply had no right to exist, the 1967 borders had nothing to do with it,” he added.
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