Opinion: Who was “Yahya Al-Sinwar” Abu Ibrahim?
“Khalil al-Hiya”, the deputy head of the political office of Hamas, confirmed the news of the martyrdom of Yahya al-Sanwar, the head of the political office of this movement.
Yahya al-Sanwar was a Palestinian military commander who joined the Martyr Ezzeddin Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas and was considered one of its leaders since the beginning of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas in Gaza.
Due to his role in the commando operation, Al-Sanwar was considered one of the most wanted people on the Zionist regime’s terror list.
Birth and authenticity
Yahya Ibrahim Hassan al-Sanwar nicknamed Abu Ibrahim was born on September 16, 1975, in the refugee camp in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. His family sought refuge in Khan Yunis after emigrating from their original city “Majdal Ashqlan” in 1948.
Education
He completed his primary education in schools affiliated with the Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA). At an early age, Yahya was influenced by his older brother Muhammad, a prominent leader of Hamas and the head of its political bureau in Gaza. He was one of the pioneers of mosques and one of the first to join Hamas when it was founded on December 14, 1987.
Duties and responsibilities
From the beginning of his campaign activities, he showed his outstanding character and was one of the activists of Hamas in resisting the occupation of the Zionist regime during the great intifada of 1993-1987.
Yahya al-Sanwar was placed in organizational positions and was one of the first to join the military arm of Hamas, “Izzedin Qassam Brigades”, and in 2005 he assumed the position of commander of “Khan Yunus Brigade”.
He became one of the prominent members of the Al-Qassam Brigades “Headquarters” and is very close to its commander-in-chief, “Mohammed Al-Dzeif”, and his deputy, “Marwan Issa”, and was considered one of the most prominent members of the terror list of the occupied Jerusalem regime.
Military experiences
Yahya al-Sinwar lived an unusual and secretive life, so most of the residents of the Gaza Strip did not see him closely and did not know him. Al-Sanwar lived in secret to avoid the blind assassinations of the Zionist regime and survived 6 unsuccessful assassinations over the past two decades. After his last public appearance in a video recorded in 2005, Yahya al-Sanwar disappeared again until he appeared in the “Ma Khafi Azam” program, which was broadcast on Friday evening, May 27, 2022, on Al-Jazeera.
The Zionists considered Yahya al-Sanwar to be the mastermind of many commando operations, especially the so-called “Tunnel Bomb” operation that targeted the military sites of the Zionist regime for 5 years.
Yahya al-Sanwar’s name was widely mentioned in the “disillusionment” operation, during which a Zionist military site in the east of Rafah was targeted. He, who was known as the designer and architect of the Palestinian prisoner exchange agreement with the Zionist soldier Gilad Shalit, believed that the solution to the release of about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners from Zionist prisons lies in the prisoner exchange deals, and in his recent appearance on the Al Jazeera network, he The efforts of the Qassam battalions during the “Battle of the Holy Sword” to kidnap and capture Zionist soldiers were revealed.
It should be noted that the Zionist regime was forced to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of a Zionist soldier named Gilad Shalit in the prisoner exchange agreement known as “Shalit”.