“We have the Israelis exactly where we want them,” said Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, referring to civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and what this means for Israel’s international image.
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Hamas commander among those killed in Ramallah attack
Hamas confirmed that one of its commanders was among those killed in an Israeli attack in Ramallah in the West Bank.
The operation resulted in the death of four Palestinians on Monday night, including Mohammed Jaber Abdo, a prominent agent of the organization.
According to information from Al Jazeera, the men died because Israeli forces fired at a vehicle in which four people were traveling, including the Hamas commander, in the Kafr Nima region. The operation occurred because Israeli forces were searching in that region for a Palestinian suspected of having tried to burn down an Israeli structure in the West Bank.
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Bruno Cardoso Reis guarantees that Gantz left because he no longer had influence in the Government. The historian recalls that it remains to be seen whether or not Hamas will accept the ceasefire proposal.
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Israel attacks Hezbollah compound in eastern Lebanon
The Israeli army announced today that it had attacked a compound belonging to the Shiite group Hezbollah in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, near the border with Syria.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the attack targeted two buildings inside the compound where a Hezbollah unit tasked with arms trafficking to and from Lebanon operated.
Israel also confirmed that it had attacked what it called “terrorist targets” on the outskirts of the southern city of Aitaroun.
“The strikes occurred in response to the destruction of an Israeli army drone operating in the skies over Lebanon” on Monday, a military statement said.
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Death of Palestinian civilians a ‘necessary sacrifice’, Hamas leader says
The death of Palestinian civilians is a “necessary sacrifice“said the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, in messages transmitted to negotiators negotiating a ceasefire mediated by Egypt and Qatar. The content of the messages, collected by The Wall Street Journal, shows the strategy behind Hamas in this conflict: “We have the Israelites right where we want them.“.
Sinwar’s messages, shared with the newspaper by sources close to these negotiations, illustrate the thinking of Hamas and its leader, who had previously told an Italian newspaper that “us [os palestinianos em Gaza] We only make news when our blood is spilled“.
In the context of the current conflict, Yahya Sinwar wrote on April 11 in a letter to Ismail Haniyeh, another Hamas official who had lost three children in an Israeli attack, that those deaths would not be in vain. For the Hamas leader, the death of those three men (Haniyeh’s sons) and the other civilians “will inject blood into the veins of this nation, helping it achieve glory and honor“.
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For Hamas, civilian casualties are something that penalizes Israel’s external image, something that will bring dividends to the Palestinian organization that controls the Gaza Strip. In the same interview with the Italian newspaper, in 2018, Sinwar had already said that “For Netanyahu, victory would be worse than defeat“.
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