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Now, Hamas is making a very clear statement to the world, not just to Israel, the United States, Qatar and Egypt that the path for Hamas runs through Gaza and fundamentally Hamas is willing to fight until the very bitter end, not only for its own survival as an organization, but from its point of view for the future of the Palestinian people. Hamas is signaling to the Israelis and whoever works with them that there is no way to separate Gaza and the future of Gaza from Hamas,
Soleimani developed an entire strategy to create a network of proxies and partners that surround Israel,” including Hamas, to seek its destruction
They only respond to Iran and perhaps to other external backers to some extent, Russia and China as well. The political cause and the military cause are now one. That means that Qatar’s leverage is now less,
Over time a series of attritional conflicts with Israel will undermine the foundation of Israel economically, socially, politically and then geopolitically. All those elements have been present in this current conflict that Hamas initiated on October 7, 2023. And we see this Soleimani playbook continue to be enacted,
No one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages,
he said at a conference earlier this week Yahya Sinwar received a new title yesterday, he is now the head of Hamas’s Political Bureau. This title, ‘political,’ won’t absolve him from being a murderer who is connected to all of the planning and execution of what happened on Oct. 7,
Halevi said during a visit to Tel Nof Air Force Base We have carried out very important operations in recent weeks, eliminating the most senior commanders of our most problematic enemies, and we are not stopping,
Not only will the change in title not prevent us from pursuing him, it motivates us and we will make the effort to find him, to target him, and for them [Hamas] to replace the head of the political bureau once again,
There are issues that he can make a decision on and there are issues and matters that his deputies and the rest of the members of the political bureau can do,
said Hani al-Masri, a veteran Palestinian analyst who has met most of Hamas’ leaders over the years, including Haniyeh and Sinwar He is a fighter. How will negotiations take place?” ... We want nothing but the end of the war
asked the displaced man originally from Gaza City, adding Choosing Sinwar was a wise decision and a message to the (Israeli) occupation that the political solution, which Israel rejected by assassinating Haniyeh, will only come from the barrel of a gun
Choosing Sinwar to lead the Hamas movement was an excellent decision because Sinwar lives in the heart of the battle, and therefore he knows exactly what he is negotiating,
said Farah Qassem, a coffee shop owner in Ramallah, the seat of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority In my opinion, appointing Yahya Sinwar as the head of Hamas was inappropriate at this critical stage
The occupation killed the negotiator Ismail Haniyeh. What will happen with the fighter Yahya Sinwar?”
His decisions will come from the suffering experienced by the people in Gaza
We don’t know how Hamas is thinking or what led them to choose Yahya Sinwar as their chief, especially when his whereabouts are unknown
29-year-old Mohammad Al Sharif told AFP in the central Gaza city of Deir Al Balah He may have a positive impact on the negotiations and may be a challenge to Israel, given that Sinwar is living inside the Gaza Strip among the people under siege
The war will not end in the near future because Israel rejects Sinwar,
Sinwar’s election effectively marks the subordination of Hamas’s political wing in its entirety to Sinwar,
Arab affairs commentator Avi Issacharoff wrote in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Wednesday He makes decisions in the utmost calm, but is intractable when it comes to defending the interests of Hamas,
Abu Abdallah told AFP in 2017, after his former co-detainee was elected Hamas’s leader in Gaza