2023-11-11 00:25:54
By Cyrille Louis
Published yesterday at 7:20 p.m., Updated yesterday at 11:25 p.m.
Yahya Sinwar. MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS
PORTRAIT – The leader of Hamas is the alleged mastermind of the massacre which pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a new era.
The Israeli army no longer wants to see him as anything but “death on borrowed time”. Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is at the top of the targets she intends to liquidate in response to the massacres of October 7. “We believe that he is at the same time the designer, the financier, the organizersummarizes Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, IDF spokesperson, and that it was ultimately he who gave the green light.” Mohammed Deïf, the commander of the Ezzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, is also in the sights. But this ghostly character, whom Israel has been tracking in vain for thirty years and of whom no recent photo is known, has now been supplanted in the role of public enemy number one. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Yahya Sinwar is hiding in the bowels of Gaza. In the name of the 1,300 victims of Hamas, but also to exorcise what the newspaper Israel Hayom described as “the biggest manipulation in the history of the country”he swore to himself“eliminate”.
Close-cropped hair, sparse beard…
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