On Monday, in his first public message for the reason that October 7 terror assaults on Israeli civilians, Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar stays defiant.
He additionally wildly inflates the fear group’s “achievements” within the struggle.
In his message, Sinwar mentioned Hamas is going through a “fierce, violent and unprecedented battle” in opposition to Israel. However he delusionally claims the fear group was on its solution to crushing the Israel Protection Forces.
Sinwar falsely claimed that the al-Qassam Brigades, the army wing of Hamas, had “focused” over 5,000 Israeli troopers and officers, and killed about third of them — that’s, over 1,500.
The precise determine of IDF deaths is one-tenth of what the fear chief alleged. In response to the IDF, 156 troopers have up to now been killed within the floor operation in Gaza. Over 300 members of the safety forces had been killed in Hamas’s preliminary October 7 onslaught.
The phobia chief additionally gave inflated claims of the variety of Israeli troopers injured within the struggle, and the quantity of Israeli army tools that has been destroyed. He claimed that round 3,500 troops had been significantly wounded or disabled, whereas that determine based on the IDF stands at lower than 200.
Information outlet Al-Jazeera, which initially printed Sinwar’s message to the top and members of Hamas’ political bureau, ultimatley eliminated a few of Sinwar’s outlandish claims.
Al-Jazeera faraway from its web site a report relating to a protracted and detailed message Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar just lately despatched to the top and members of Hamas’ political bureau, relating to the combating in Gaza.
Within the message, from which the Qatari-owned information web site shared… pic.twitter.com/2TD8xbwMol
— Ariel Oseran (@ariel_oseran) December 25, 2023
Sinwar stays Israel’s most needed for the October seventh assault.