Yahya Sinwar, once Israel's prisoner, 'ready to pay any price', named Hamas leader
Yahya Sinwar , named leader of Hamas on Tuesday, masterminded the bloodiest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, having made no secret of his desire to strike hard at Israel, the country that imprisoned him for almost half his adult life.
The war set off by the 7 October attack laid waste to Gaza, as Israel sought to eliminate Hamas. Sinwar has been at the top of Israel's assassination list during the conflict. Heard in hindsight, Sinwar's words foreshadowed what was to come, an attack Hamas dubbed the"flood of Al-Aqsa," a reference to the mosque in Jerusalem that is one of Islam's holiest shrines and stands on a place revered by Jews as Temple Mount. Al-Aqsa has been subject to repeated Israeli raids.
Before he was jailed, Sinwar rose to prominence as the head of the Al-Majd security apparatus which tracked and killed Palestinians accused of providing information on Hamas to Israel’s secret service.
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