Pars Today – American daily Wall Street Journal wrote on the capabilities of Hamas, that after martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar, late Head of the Political Bureau of Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), this movement is as powerful as before, while recruiting new forces and dragging the Zionist regime into a war of attrition.
Hamas informed of the martyrdom of the head of the movement’s political bureau on October 18, 2024 while he was fighting the Zionist military in Tal Sultan neighborhood of Rafah city of the Gaza Strip. Pars Today quoted from ISNA that martyr Yahya Sinwar is known as the commander of Operation al-Aqsa Storm- which was launched against the Zionist-inhabited settlements of Gaza on October 7, 2024 in response to the aggressions of the Zionist regime. As a result, the fabricated Zionist regime waged the destructive war on Gaza leading to martyrdom of over 46 thousand and injury of nearly 110 thousand, mostly civilian Palestinians.
Wall Street Journal, pointing to the valor of Mohammad Sinwar, Hamas senior member and younger brother to martyr Yahya Sinwar, writes, “Hamas has another Sinwar at the helms of power who tries to restore Hamas to its heyday.”
WSJ, then mentions the military capabilities and power of Hamas and stresses, “Hamas continues to create a new generation of ready forces who can make handmade bombs from the unexploded Israeli ammunitions. Hamas uses these tools to impose damage on the Israeli regime. The Israeli army informed of 10 military forces being killed in Beit Hanoun region in north of Gaza last week and Hamas has launched approximately 20 missiles at Israel during the past weeks.”
Wall Street Journal adds, “The issue of employment of new forces led by Mohammad Sinwar has brought about new challenges for Israel to the extent that the Israeli army has been forced to withdraw for several months from the regions where it had advanced. This cycle indicates that Israeli forces are exhausted and the lives of their captives are also at stake.”
Amir Avivi, retired Israeli general, has acknowledged, “We are in circumstances in which Hamas is reconstructing and refreshing its power faster than the advancement of the Israeli army. Mohammad Sinwar is administering everything.”
Hamas spokesman has not reacted to the report and these remarks, yet.
Mohammad Sinwar; unknown commander for Israelis
Wall Street Journal then writes on Mohammad Sinwar’s role, “Mohammad Sinwar is in the center of the efforts to revive Hamas. When Israeli soldiers killed his brother in October, Hamas officials, based in the Qatari capital, Doha, decided to form a leadership council instead of appointment of a new leader. But, according to the Arab mediators in ceasefire talks with Israel, Hamas officials in Gaza didn’t accept the suggestion and are autonomously acting under the younger Sinwar.”
The American daily continues, “It is estimated that Mohammad Sinwar is nearly 50 years old and was considered among near ones to his brother who was more than 10 years older. Just like Yahya, he joined Hamas in young age and was near to Mohammad al-Deif, commander-in-chief of al-Qassam brigades. Unlike his brother, who had been in Israeli prisons for more than two decades, Mohammad was not in Israeli prisons for long and is, thus, less known by Israel. He is often active behind the scene and Arab officials have called him with the pseudonym of “Shadow”.
A Zionist official says, “We are trying hard to find him.”
Political analysts maintain that Mohammad Sinwar is known as the “Highest Hamas Commander in Gaza”.
Hamas in a very strong situation
The American newspaper reported on the exact number of Hamas forces, “According to the Arab and Israeli officials, Hamas still controls more parts of the Gaza Strip, but it doesn’t say how many forces it has lost or how many forces it has recently recruited.”
WSJ quoted from Arab officials as saying, “Mohammad Sinwar has proved to be stricter than his elder brother on the issue of ceasefire.”
According to this American media, after several months of efforts, it still hangs in the balance to hold ceasefire to release Zionist captives.
Mediators, especially Egypt and Qatar, have been in coordination with the US government during the past weeks to discuss Gaza ceasefire through further contacts and talks with Hamas and Zionist officials.
Mohammad Sinwar wrote to the mediators last year, “Hamas is powerful enough to present its conditions. If this truce is not comprehensive and fails to end the pains of the people of Gaza, Hamas will continue the struggle.”
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