The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas confirmed Friday the death of its leader, Yahya Sinouar, the day after Israel’s announcement of his elimination during an operation in the Gaza Strip, affirming that it wanted to continue its fight “until liberation of Palestine.”
“We mourn the death of the great leader, the martyr brother, Yahya Sinouar, Abu Ibrahim,” Khalil al-Hayya, a Hamas official based in Qatar, said in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera.
Israel announced Thursday that Yahya Sinouar, considered the architect of the unprecedented Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, had been killed during an operation in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. “The martyrdom of our leader (…) and of all the leaders and symbols of the movement (…) will only strengthen our movement and our resistance,” he added.
Hamas said Friday that the hostages would not be released until Israel ends its war in the Gaza Strip, its army withdraws from the territory and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are not released. not released.
The hostages “will not return (…) until the aggression against our people in Gaza ceases, there is a complete withdrawal from the territory and our heroic prisoners are released from the prisons of the occupation,” Khalil al-Hayya, a Qatar-based leader of the movement, said in a video broadcast on al-Jazeera.
“Our jihad will not stop until the liberation of Palestine, the expulsion of the last Zionist and the restoration of all our legitimate rights,” declared, for their part, the members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
