Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted October 5, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted October 5, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ****** leader Yahya Sinwar has been silent for months In a windowless room, somewhere in the bowels of the ******* Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters, Chief of Staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi jabbed his index finger forward. ******* had This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and was This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up when he summoned his generals and commanders to take instructions. But pictures of the meeting released to the press showed a seemingly unrelated image in the background. Up on a screen mounted on the wood-panelled wall are fourteen mugshots of the ****** chain of command – most of them with a giant red cross over them to mark that they had been *******. At the top of the chain was public ****** no 1, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , with his grey hair and salt and pepper beard. For the first time since the war began, he had a question mark over his head. The image set off a fresh round of speculation that This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , the man who planned and ordered the Oct 7 massacres, was finally *****. A little over a week until the anniversary of the ******* attacks this coming Monday, was it possible the IDF had finally got their man? data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== Rumours about his possible ****** had emerged a few weeks earlier when intelligence officials began briefing that one of the precision airstrikes that had levelled Gaza may have ******* the leader. No concrete evidence has emerged since, but the pattern follows similar high-level assassinations in Gaza, which have taken a few weeks to be publicly announced. Two well-placed ******** officials told The Telegraph that the defence establishment believes that Sinwar is now *****. One of the sources said that “it is highly likely that Yahya Sinwar was eliminated in one of the IDF strikes. The assessments in *******’s security leadership suggest that Sinwar was most likely *******.” However, plenty of caution ********. Sceptics question the timing around the Oct 7 anniversary and how ******* would have ******* a man said to have been hidden deep underground and surrounded, according to reports, by ******** hostages. Sinwar could have decided the best way to keep himself safe as assassinations take down his top leaders is to retreat entirely from view. ********* officials told the New York Times they believed Sinwar is still alive and making key decisions for ******. The clues ******** sources told The Telegraph that one piece of evidence emerging about his possible ****** was an end to communications with the leader. One source said the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that had been keeping the ******** negotiations alive had dried up. However, ******* also announced on Thursday it had ******* Sinwar’s right-hand man some three months ago. Rawhi Mushtaha was allegedly one of those involved in the complex human chain of delivering the notes. *******’s intelligence machine has relied on tracking couriers in the past, notably to find and ***** ******’ military chief Mohammed Deif, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in July. The US adopted a similar technique to find ****** bin Laden. Sources suggested *******’s defence establishment is believed to be currently in a situation similar to when an airstrike targeted Mr Deif in Khan Younis on July 13. The official confirmation of his ****** was announced nearly three weeks later on August 1. Sinwar was appointed the political leader of ****** after This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in Tehran in July, making him the all-powerful figure of the ******* group. Widely seen as the architect behind the Oct 7 massacre, he is considered the most valuable target for *******, which refers to him as a “***** man walking.” ******** forces have scoured Gaza for Sinwar since they invaded the enclave in late October and even came close to capturing him several times. The IDF assessed early on in the war that the ****** leader was hiding in southern Gaza, specifically in a tunnel deep underground. In February, the IDF released This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up since Oct 7, showing his children and wife walking through a tunnel under a ********* in the Bani Suheila area in Khan Younis. Sinwar is seen in flip flops and carrying a bag as he walks through the tunnel behind his family on Oct 10 but ******** soldiers only reached the tunnel in February where they found the surveillance footage. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that the tunnel from which Sinwar escaped before ******** forces came contained “bedrooms of senior ****** officials and the office of the commander of the Khan Younis Brigade’s Eastern Battalion, from where he directed the ******* on Oct 7”. Senior ****** officials resided in the compound in “comfortable conditions” with food and bathrooms, along with safes with “personal funds of millions of shekels and dollars in cash,” Mr Hagari added. In December, Mr Netanyahu announced that ******** troops had surrounded Mr Sinwar’s home in Khan Younis. “I said last night that This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Now, they are encircling Sinwar’s home. His home is not his fortress, and while he may flee, it is only a matter of time until we get him,” Mr Netanyahu said. In August, the outgoing commander of the IDF’s 98th Division, Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, told Channel 12 that the army was “minutes” away from catching the ****** leader. “We were close. We were in his compound. We got to an underground compound. We found a lot of money there. The coffee was still hot. Weapons strewn around,” Mr Goldfus said. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== In an image released by the IDF, the chart in the background shows Yahya Sinwar’s name with a question mark over his head – IDF data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== The question mark raised the possibility that Sinwar had been ******* – IDF And as ******* continues to ***** ****** commanders, Mr Sinwar is running out of places to hide. “Every day, he has trouble finding places where he can hide. The list of associates and confidants is being reduced,” a security source told the Jerusalem Post in August. But ******* is also dealing with a far wider and more complex network of tunnels than they believed existed before the invasion. That leaves intelligence gathering as the key. The hunt Hunters fall under an umbrella of units under the ******** Security Agency and include intelligence officers, special operation units from the ******* Defense Forces (IDF), military engineers and surveillance experts. Teams of experts entering the tunnels, like the special section of the Combat Engineering Corps, are armed with ground-penetrating radar. Yahalom, a special section within the Combat Engineering Corps, has more experience in tunnel warfare than any of its counterparts in Western armies and has access to state-of-the-art US-made ground-penetrating radar. Many clues have turned up in ****** compounds revealing everything from the ******* group’s plans, orders, maps and blueprints of compound structures. Seized computers, documents and surveillance footage have all helped keep the trail warm. “Hundreds and thousands of interrogations of terrorists and senior leaders would not have yielded such intimate intelligence on their methods of order and organisation in such a short *******,” a military official said in July. But the interrogations of thousands of members of ****** and other ******* groups who were arrested since Oct 7 has also helped. They have so far led to the IDF finding tunnels and ******* depots and revealing hospitals and Red Crescent facilities ****** allegedly uses to operate from. data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== Yahya Sinwar sits defiantly in an armchair after ******* bombed his home in Gaza in 2021 “Each and every investigation leads to the incrimination of new sites, and the human intelligence that emerges… is an inseparable layer of the complete intelligence picture,” the IDF said already back in November. The importance of tracking Sinwar’s communication with other members has also become clear. Previously *******’s secretive signals intelligence unit 8200 had been employed to eavesdrop on ****** communications. But their role was reduced since ****** leadership ditched all electronic communication in favour of notes and ***** messages delivered by runners. “Using complex means, he communicates with all the leadership of the movement both inside (Gaza) and outside, and also with the (Ezzedine) al-Qassam Brigades,” a senior ****** leader told AfP. “He follows complex security procedures for his personal protection, but this does not prevent him from continuing his duties and making decisions,” he added. The repercussions If Mr Sinwar has been *******, it raises a number of questions. Khaled Meshaal, the former leader of ******, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up and govern the ******* group effectively, albeit from abroad and not inside Gaza. There is also the possibility that hostages may have been ******* in the same strike on Sinwar. If so, the ******** government will be met with fury from the vast majority of the public that wants a ceasefire deal with ******. In theory, ******** Sinwar could give Mr Netanyahu the win he needs to sign a deal that could end the war and This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . Khalil al-Hayya, the deputy leader of ******, is currently representing the ******* group in the negotiations, which notably have been stalled for weeks. But since he doesn’t have a mandate to strike a deal by himself, there won’t be any ceasefire until Mr Sinwar either shows signs of life, and re-engages with mediators, or he is announced ***** and a new leader is appointed. Giora Eiland, the former head of *******’s national security council, told The Telegraph that there are definitely “signs” that Sinwar has been *******. But he added he hasn’t received any information from ******** officials he’s spoken to in recent weeks. “It’s still a mystery,” he said. Mr Netanyahu’s speech on Sunday raised eyebrows as it listed Sinwar alongside other commanders ******* by *******. “The regime in Tehran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and to exact a price from our enemies. Sinwar and Deif did not understand this; neither did Nasrallah or Mohsen,” Mr Netanyahu said. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #****** #leader #Yahya #Sinwar #silent #months This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/142662-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-has-been-silent-for-months/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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