9/8/2024–|Last update: 9/8/202409:06 PM (Makkah Time)
The military spokesman announced Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida, the Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, pledged allegiance to the “Mujahid leader” Yahya Sinwar and also announced its full readiness to implement his decisions.
Abu Obeida said in a tweet on his Telegram channel that “Sinwar's selection as head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Successor to our martyred leader, the Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh Evidence of the movement’s vitality, cohesion and strength, thanks to God Almighty.”
On Tuesday evening, Hamas announced the selection of its leader in Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar (61 years old) as head of its political bureau, succeeding Haniyeh, who was martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted his residence during his visit to the Iranian capital. Tehran Last week.
The movement explained in a statement that Sinwar was chosen for this position after “in-depth and extensive consultations and deliberations within the movement's leadership institutions.”
The movement expressed its confidence in “Sinwar as its leader at a sensitive stage and complex local, regional and international circumstances.”
Before being chosen to head Hamas's political bureau, Sinwar was elected head of the movement in the Gaza Strip in 2017, and again in 2021.
Yahya Sinwar was released in 2011 after spending 23 years in Israeli occupation prisons, and was one of more than a thousand prisoners freed in exchange for the Israeli soldier. Gilad Shalit Within what was called the “deal”Loyalty of the free“.
and consider Israel Sinwar is the engineer of the operation.Al-Aqsa FloodOn October 7, 2023, which inflicted human and military losses on it and shook the image of its intelligence and security services in the eyes of the world, it announced that his liquidation was one of the goals of its current war on Gaza.