Who is Yahya al-Sanwar, the new head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement?
According to Al Jazeera, the Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced in a statement on Tuesday that Yahya Sanwar was elected as the new head of the political office of this movement to succeed Ismail Haniyeh.
Yahya al-Sanwar is a Palestinian military commander who joined the Martyr Ezzeddin Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, from the beginning of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Gaza and is now one of its leaders.
Due to his role in the commando operation, Al-Sanwar is considered one of the most wanted people in the Zionist regime’s terror list.
Birth and authenticity
Yahya Ibrahim Hassan al-Sanwar 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 of 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 office 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-Dazif”, and his deputy, “Marwan Issa”, and all three of them are among the most prominent members of the terror list of the occupying Jerusalem regime.
Military experiences
Yahya al-Sanwar has lived an unusual and secretive life, so most of the residents of the Gaza Strip have not seen him closely and do not know him. Al-Sanwar lives in secret to avoid the blind assassinations of the Zionist regime and has survived 6 failed assassinations in 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 consider 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 is known as the designer and architect of the Palestinian prisoner exchange agreement with the Zionist soldier Gilad Shalit, believes that the solution to the release of about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners from Zionist prisons lies in the exchange of prisoners, and 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”.