As I write no confirmation but if it is him and if he was one of the leaders of the Oct 7th killings, good news. Also good news as it could mean Israel see sense and stop killing thousands of innocent Palestinians. And of course Netanyahu - in everything we read and see, as guilty as Sinwar - just with different excuses, may now be about to face justice.

Yes let us hope Israel now use this as the get out to cease operations, but I'm not holding my breath. Of course it is totally irrelevant who is leading Hamas: you can't muder an ideology. At the same time Israel murder someone linked to Hamas (or not) they just create new members of Hamas (or whatever the next Hamas is called) simmering with lifelong hatred for Israel.

JK2006 wrote:
As I write no confirmation but if it is him and if he was one of the leaders of the Oct 7th killings, good news. Also good news as it could mean Israel see sense and stop killing thousands of innocent Palestinians. And of course Netanyahu - in everything we read and see, as guilty as Sinwar - just with different excuses, may now be about to face justice.

If only it stopped the deaths.

They say Gaza is being divided in two and Jared Krushner is planning condos for the new Israeli Gaza.

Now confirmed and I stress I wish death on NOBODY. But I do with for punishment on the equally bad leaders of the other side who used Oct 7 as a way to commit far worse atrocities. End the invasion; give back every single hostage NOW. Remove maniac Netanyahu and send him for trial in Holland. Rebuild Gaza. Stop the illegal invasion of Lebanon. Support Israeli protection and make both stupid parties agree that both states - Israel and Palestine - exist as peaceful neighbours.

JK2006 wrote:
Now confirmed and I stress I wish death on NOBODY. But I do with for punishment on the equally bad leaders of the other side who used Oct 7 as a way to commit far worse atrocities. End the invasion; give back every single hostage NOW. Remove maniac Netanyahu and send him for trial in Holland. Rebuild Gaza. Stop the illegal invasion of Lebanon. Support Israeli protection and make both stupid parties agree that both states - Israel and Palestine - exist as peaceful neighbours.

I've never seen it before but I believe a substantial percentage of Israelis, bearing in mind Netanyahu & his unbelievably murderous Cabinet were voted in by a majority, have been consumed by a frightening blood lust with Israeli politicians calling for a holocaust of Palestinians.

Some of the videos posted by IDF soldiers on internet forums are sickening and include snipers killing small children who may be with an adult.

if an Israeli drone could find Yahya Sinwar so precisely in a wrecked Gaza why did so many innocents have to be killed?

hedda wrote:
if an Israeli drone could find Yahya Sinwar so precisely in a wrecked Gaza why did so many innocents have to be killed?

Heart-breaking isn't it. Israel could have bided it's time and taken senior figures out. What have they achieved? What is the bloody point of it all...

He seems to have been a piece of work, to put it mildly.

Yahya Sinwar: Who was the Hamas leader?
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Two years after Hamas was founded in 1987, he set up the group's feared internal security organisation, the al-Majd. He was still only 25.

Al-Majd became infamous for punishing those accused of so-called morality offences - Michael said he targeted shops that stocked "sex videos" - as well as hunting down and killing anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.

Yaari said he was responsible for numerous "brutal killings" of people suspected of co-operation with Israel. "Some of them with his own hands and he was proud of that, talking about it to me and to others."

According to Israeli officials, he later confessed to punishing a suspected informer by getting the man's brother to bury him alive, finishing the job using a spoon instead of a spade.

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Yaari's [Ehud Yaari, a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times] assessment of Sinwar, built up over the times they met, was that he was a psychopath. "[But] to say about Sinwar, 'Sinwar is a psychopath, full stop,' would be a mistake" he said, "because then you will miss this strange, complex figure".

He was, Yaari said, "extremely cunning, shrewd - a guy who knows to switch on and off a type of personal charm".

When Sinwar would tell him Israel must be destroyed and insist there was no place for Jewish people in Palestine, "he would joke, 'Maybe we'll make an exception of you'".

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It isn't going to change a thing. Just someone else will take command, and Israel will resume doing what they do best---slaughtering civilians. And believe me, there will be a lot of young men who will spend the rest of their days wanting brutal revenge on Israel and its Allies. Which of course is why Nutteryahu will continue on his path, to decimate future 'terrorists'. But make no mistake, the IDF are terrorists. And have taken terrorism to a new level. One that is sanctioned by the West.