CIt is a 38-page indictment. The American justice system on Tuesday made public the charges against six senior members of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, including Yahya Sinwar, considered the mastermind of the October 7 attack, on charges of “terrorism.”
Six Hamas leaders, including its former political leader Ismail Haniyeh, assassinated in Tehran on July 31 in an operation attributed to Israel, as well as his successor Yahya Sinwar, are targeted by the charges filed on February 1 in federal court in New York. At that time, Yahya Sinwar was the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since then, in addition to Ismail Haniyeh, two other of these leaders, including the head of Hamas’ armed wing, have been killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.
Six more hostages executed
The charges target “Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas leaders for planning the terrorist organization’s campaign of mass violence and terror over decades, including October 7,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a video statement. “In its attacks over the past three decades, Hamas has murdered and injured thousands of civilians, including dozens of American citizens,” he said. “This weekend, we learned that Hamas murdered six additional hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-A […] Read more
