“The bloodshed (in the Gaza Strip) will benefit Hamas.” That’s it, “brutal calculation” the leader of Hamas in the Palestinian enclave, Yahya Sinwara, according to “dozens of messages” signed with my own hand, that American daily The Wall Street Journal could consult.
The messages he sent to his partners within the Palestinian movement, as part of indirect talks with Israel regarding an agreement on the cessation of fighting and the release of hostages, or even Egyptian and Qatari mediators.
It is undoubtedly this cynical and macabre calculation that explains why Yahya Sinwar until then “pressure resistant” with the aim of concluding an agreement that does not meet his requirements.
In February, as Israel pressured Hamas to conclude a ceasefire before Ramadan or risk launching an offensive on Rafah, Sinwar urged his partners not to accept concessions and to continue demanding an end to the war. “A large number of victims will put international pressure on Israel” then he wrote to them.
“Historic victory”
Since the Hamas leader’s goal in Gaza appears clearly in his correspondence, reports Ynetvijesti. “Sinwar’s ultimate goal appears to be to secure a permanent ceasefire that would allow Hamas to declare a historic victory – having ‘survived’ Israeli efforts to eliminate it – and then assume leadership of the Palestinian national cause,” writing page of an Israeli newspaper in English Yediot Aharonot.
In this context, continue Internet news, Sinwar believes that the Prime Minister of Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu “there is little choice but to occupy the Gaza Strip” and so, “to get stuck in months and years of fighting against Hamas”.
Thus, evaluates Yahya Sinwar in one of these messages taken back by The Jerusalem Post :
“We have the Israelis where we wanted them to be.”
“Necessary Victims”
But what the entire Israeli press is noticing is, as described The Wall Street Journal, her “cold disregard for human life”.
And this even though the leader of Hamas in Gaza seems surprised “brutality” and “civil crimes” Hamas attackers on October 7: “Things got out of control. (…) People got carried away, and that shouldn’t have happened,” it says.
Almost 1,200 Israelis were killed that day, and 251 people were taken hostage. Today, 116 are still detained in Gaza, of whom 41 have died, according to the Israeli military.
So Sinwar explains that more than 37,000 Gazans killed since the beginning of the war were in the enclave “necessary sacrifices”, reports the Israeli daily Ha’Aretz.
He even wrote, in a letter to the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, that the deaths of Gazans, including the deaths of three of his sons killed in Israeli bombing, “he would breathe life into the veins of this nation, pushing it to rise to its glory and honor”.