From Yahya Sinwar to Martyr Sinwar: A Zionist Nightmare.
“Yahya Sinwar”, nicknamed “Abu Ibrahim”, is a name that the Zionists have always been extremely afraid of, and the dimensions of his personality, whether he was inside the prisons of the occupation regime or when he entered key positions in the Hamas movement, and even after his martyrdom, have always been worrying for the Zionist authorities.
The name of the martyr Yahya Sinwar became a significant topic of conversation after the Battle of the Sword of Quds in 2021. He was arrested many times by the Zionist enemy during his fighting life and was sentenced to life imprisonment four times before being released in a prisoner exchange deal in 2011.
Martyr Yahya Sinwar’s Life of Resistance
Martyr Yahya Sinwar was born on October 7, 1962, in the Khan Yunis camp in the southern Gaza Strip, and his family was displaced from the city of Majdal in the northeastern Gaza Strip after the Nakba Day and the Zionist occupation of Palestinian lands in 1948. Like other Palestinians, he grew up in very difficult conditions and was constantly harassed by the Zionist occupiers, along with his family.
Martyr Yahya Sinwar received his primary education at the Khan Yunis Boys’ School and then graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic Studies. During his studies at the university, he was prominent in student activities and was an active member of the Islamic Organization, serving as the Secretary-General of the Technical Committee and then the Secretary-General of the Sports Committee in the Student Council of the Islamic University of Gaza.
These student activities helped Martyr Sinwar gain experience and skills that qualified him to assume leadership roles in the Hamas movement after its establishment during the First Intifada.
In 1986, Martyr Yahya Sinwar, along with Khaled Al-Hindi and Ruhi Mushtah, established a security service called the Jihad and Propaganda Organization, known as “Majd”, on the orders of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Hamas movement 1986. Its main responsibility was to pursue and arrest enemy spies and track down officers of the occupation regime’s intelligence and security services. This service soon became the first core of the development of the Hamas movement’s internal security system.
Martyr Yahya Sinwar received his primary education at the Khan Yunis Boys’ School and then graduated from the Islamic University of Gaza with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic Studies. During his studies at the university, he was prominent in student activities and was an active member of the Islamic Organization, serving as the Secretary-General of the Technical Committee and then the Secretary-General of the Sports Committee in the Student Council of the Islamic University of Gaza.
These student activities helped Martyr Sinwar gain experience and skills that qualified him to assume leadership roles in the Hamas movement after its establishment during the First Intifada.
In 1986, Martyr Yahya Sinwar, along with Khaled Al-Hindi and Ruhi Mushtah, established a security service called the Jihad and Propaganda Organization, known as “Majd”, on the orders of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Hamas movement 1986. Its main responsibility was to pursue and arrest enemy spies and track down officers of the occupation regime’s intelligence and security services. This service soon became the first core of the development of the Hamas movement’s internal security system.
The Role of Martyr Yahya Sinwar in the Development of Hamas’ Military and Political Power
Finally, Martyr Yahya Sinwar was released in 2011, along with more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, in exchange for the release of Zionist prisoner Gilad Shalit in a prisoner exchange deal called “Loyalty to the Freedmen.” After releasing Martyr Yahya Sinwar, the Zionists repeatedly emphasized that they deeply regretted his release.
After his release, Martyr Sinwar was elected to the political bureau of the Hamas movement in the 2012 internal elections and also took charge of the military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. His mission in these brigades was to coordinate between the Hamas political bureau and the command of the al-Qassam Brigades, and he performed his first mission in this regard well in the 2014 war with the Zionist enemy.
After the end of this war, Martyr Yahya Sinwar conducted comprehensive reviews and assessments of the performance of the Hamas field commanders.
Martyr Yahya Sinwar was once again appointed as the head of the Hamas political bureau in 2017.
The Guardian newspaper stated in an article in 2017 that Sinwar’s entry into the Hamas movement would end the internal competition between the political and military factions of the movement and redefine its politics. This man considers the Gaza Strip a priority for Palestinian political and military activities and distances Hamas from the Palestinian Authority in general.