Terrorist leader speaks out

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Now you have it for the horse's mouth -

Yahya Sinwar: Hamas leader in Gaza didn't expect consequences of 7 October attack to be 'this dangerous', says friend

Updated Wed, 14 February 2024 at 10:02 pm GMT

The top Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was one of the main planners of the 7 October attack on Israel but did not expect the consequences to become "this dangerous", a friend has told Sky News.
Esmat Mansour (who has been in prison with Sinwar) said last year's cross-border raid was supposed to be a strategic operation designed to lift the Israeli siege on the territory, release Sinwar's friends from prison, and make him a "leader of the Palestinian people".
But the calculations "didn't go as planned", the reaction of the Israelis was "uncontrolled, without any justification", and "now we have this result", he explained.
"He [Sinwar] didn't expect the operation to make things this complicated and to go as far as it did and become this dangerous. And [it] gave Israel all the reasons and excuses to break all the rules."
Speaking from Ramallah in the West Bank, Mansour said: "I think he was one of the main people behind this operation."
He claimed that if Sinwar knew what the consequences of the assault would be, he "would never have planned an operation this way".
Mansour, who has been in prison with Sinwar, said the Hamas leader had "wanted to make a change".
According to his ex-fellow inmate, Sinwar "tried several times to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, to make a good relationship with Egypt, and he tried to provoke Israel to lift the siege on Gaza".
"After all these efforts, he didn't succeed. After that, he had to make a strategic change to [do] a huge operation like this. A big part of it was thought up by Sinwar."
Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in its raid on Israel last October and took around 250 others hostage.
The attack led to retaliatory Israeli strikes on Gaza that have killed at least 28,576 Palestinians, including mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
The Israeli military claims it has killed or captured 8,000-9,000 Hamas fighters since 7 October.

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Which goes back to an age old trope about funding, it's not so much the amount you have as what you do with it. Are you one of those people who think netanyahu engineered 7/10 as a fundraiser.

Hmm I wonder what could possibly have stunted economic growth in Gaza. Such a mystery.

Yes some would support him on the marches, the ones that hit, spit and shout down those that condemn hamas. The sole Iranian man showed that to be true, they wander along in the marchers, they hide within, much like hamas hide within, similar tactics, they dislike the stance of anti hamas being spoken.

The police removed him, the man actually speaking against terrorism so as not to inflame 'peace' marchers. The irony. Speak out against hamas and get removed.... no freedom of speech for him.

Some definitely do support sinwar and his 'resistance force'. I say they are scum. Rape is never resistance. Some on here share every scrap of unchecked hatred they can find to hate Israel. Go read the hundreds of threads it's not difficult to see.

I am a free the hostages, hamas surrender and stop the war. The first 2 are down to hamas to sort but scum sinwar wouldn't do it. He cares nothing for Palestinian people. They are pawns in his hate filled life

Sinwar what an apt name - he's in the tunnel with wife and kids - waiting for them all to be martyred - then blame the IDF for killing his kids

Yes, I've seen those posts,

It beats me how people have the time to post all that stuff, don't they have anything else to do?

Thank you for explaining.

Maybe Hamas might think of the consequences next time they plan an attack. Assuming they have any thinking skills in their hate filed 'brains'.