Hamas on Tuesday named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader in a dramatic sign of the power of the Palestinian militant group’s hardline wing after his predecessor was killed in a presumed Israeli strike in Iran.
The selection of Sinwar, a secretive figure close to Iran who worked for years to build up Hamas’ military strength, was a defiant signal that the group is prepared to keep fighting after 10 months of destruction from Israel’s campaign in Gaza and after the assassination of Sinwar’s predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh.
Yeah - one is literally defined as a terrorist organization while the other is an established and recognized country. Not liking someone doesn’t make them a terrorist
Hate Israel all you want, question the motivations, actions and policies, but they aren’t a terrorist organization.
Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation to pursuit a political aim. It can be an individual, a group and even a country. Israel is destroying the majority of civilians infrastructure and targetting civilians, they let settlers commit violence against west banker, they are kidnapping people everyday there, they are torturing prisoners and raping them. All of that for the zionism political goal. Get the hell out of here with your israel is not a terrorist state. I don’t give a damn about the west hypocritical use of the concept of terrorism it’s based on interests instead of the real definition of terrorism