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The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has officially announced Yahya Sinwar as the new head of its political bureau. Sinwar succeeds the late Ismail Haniyeh, who served as the leader of the Islamic movement up until Israel assassinated him in Tehran last week.
The social media is buzzing about the news of the selection of Sinwar as the next chief of the political bureau.
Many say the selection of Yahiya Sinwar to lead Hamas is being described as “Israel’s worst nightmare now unfolding.”
Israeli analyst Avi Issachharoff says Hamas has chosen the most dangerous person to lead it while one Israeli officer tweeted “we [Israel] made a mistake in assassinating Haniyeh so Sinwar becomes the head of Hamas.”
Hamas’s quick and unanimous selection of Sinwar as president demonstrates the movement’s vitality, said Osama Hamadan, head of Hamas in Beirut.
Hamas’s message is that it has chosen someone who has been entrusted with the fight on the ground in Gaza for more than 300 days, he added.
The Israeli Walla website stated that sirens went off in Ashkelon and Sderot after Sinwar’s appointment was announced.
Sinwar, a prominent leader within Hamas, is deemed to be the architect of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October, 2023, which inflicted significant human and military losses and shook the image of Israel’s intelligence and security agencies before the world, the Quds News Network reported.
And as a result, Israel announced that Sinwar’s elimination is one of the objectives of its offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Sinwar is considered one of Hamas’s most knowledgeable leader about the Israeli mindset. He is also regarded as one of ‘the hawks’ within the movement, which can influence the course of negotiations on a prisoner exchange deal. This comes after Hamas, under Haniyeh, had shown significant flexibility the Quds website reported.
