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- europeanfederalists
- cross-posted to:
- europeanfederalists
Hamas has acknowledged the death of its leader Yahya Sinwar but vowed to keep fighting, in the face of international calls for an immediate ceasefire.
“We are continuing Hamas’s path,” Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar’s deputy said from exile in Qatar, adding that the slain leader’s conditions for a ceasefire would not be compromised.
Those conditions included a cessation of Israeli military operations in Gaza, the complete withdrawal of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from the occupied coastal strip, and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Hayya insisted that Hamas would emerge stronger than ever despite the death of its leader, but most experts predict that Sinwar’s killing was a significant blow to the movement, at least in the short term.
I don’t codone violence. But probably a dumb question but why didn’t IDF/Israel just use mossad to go after him and then wait till another leader popped up and go after them and so on and so on. Instead of bombing the living shit also shooting in Gaza?
Because the goal is to remove Palestinians from their land by any means necessary. In practice, that means genocide.
Adding to what the other guy said, Mossad is good at what they do but they’re not all powerful, and Hamas has been operating under their thumb for 30 years. It’s not that simple or they’d be doing it in addition to the genocide (see: Lebanon).
Israel, the US, and probably others were looking for him but no one could find him. It was a chance encounter with trainee soldiers.