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Who was Yahiya Sinwar, the mastermind of the 7 October attack?

– it was he Top leaders of HamasHe reached this post last July after Israel killed his predecessor Ismail HaniyaHis residence in Tehran was attacked. from that day it is goal number one Israeli military operation in Gaza.

-It is considered The architect of the attack on 7 October 2023In which Hamas killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 people. He is also seen as the strategic and military brains of Hamas.

, He was born in Khan Yunis refugee camp.In 1962, south of Gaza. There he spent an impoverished youth, witnessing Israeli violence against the Palestinian population.

, He joined Hamas almost from its foundingin 1987, and from a very early age he adopted his radical Islamic ideology, which seeks to create an Islamic state through armed struggle against Israel in the historic territory of Palestine (which includes Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel) . and which opposes the existence of the Israeli state.

, He spent 22 years in the Israeli prison of Ashkelon

The city from which his family was expelled by Israel in 1948 due to the mass displacement that Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (or catastrophe) and which occurred within the framework of the Arab–Israeli War that the State Was completed with the construction of. Israel.

– Was Arrested in 1988 and sentenced to four life termsAccused of plotting to kidnap and murder two Israeli army soldiers and four Palestinian informants. He was released from jail in 2011 Following a prisoner exchange agreement, 1,027 Palestinians were freed in exchange for one Israeli soldier.

– Sources close to Sinwar have assured the Reuters agency that after a year of war in Gaza, which has killed about 42,500 people in the Strip, He never regretted starting the attack

(Reuters)