Yahya Sinwar, the actual ruler of the Hamas Gaza Strip, was very brave. He did not escape overseas, but hid in the Gaza Strip. Now, the Israel Defense Forces have determined his exact location, but he seems not afraid: Israel is surrounded by Israeli hostages, and Israel is afraid to destroy him, This has deprived Israel of a major morale boosting achievement.
The Israeli Times reported on January 8 that many sources said that the Israel Defense Forces had determined the exact location of the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, but there were living Israeli hostages around him - he used the Israeli human shield to prevent the Israel Defense Forces from air strikes and attacks on him.
Amos Yadrin, the former head of Israel's military intelligence agency, said on Kan Public Radio last Sunday that Israel had identified Sinwar's hiding place in the Gaza Strip, but because there were hostages around him, the Israeli army was terrified.
Jonathan Shanzer, Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy in Washington, D.C., said in a social media post: "In the past two days, the reports from Israel echo what I have heard in recent weeks, that is, the Israelis know where Sinwar is hiding."
Shang Ze continued: "Although my hypothesis has not been confirmed, he is in the tunnel of Khan Younis in the south of Gaza. What I specifically heard is that there are Israeli hostages around him, and he is using them as human shields."
Israeli media reported that shortly after the IDF ground attack on Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Shinwar fled to Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, among the fleeing Gazans. Israel has never caught this big fish.
However, during the war between Israel and Kazakhstan, the Israel Defense Forces repeatedly claimed that they were approaching Shinwar. A month ago, the Israel Defense Forces reported that they had found and destroyed a hidden apartment of Shinwar in Gaza City and the large tunnel system below it. There are shelters, prayer rooms and recreation areas 20 meters deep in the tunnel; The tunnel has power supply, ventilation and sewage infrastructure.
Sinwar had long fled Gaza City in the north, and the IDF destroyed his residence and underground tunnel in Gaza City, which did not cause much loss to him. He naturally had many hiding places in Gaza.
Sinwar is the actual ruler of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and also the main planner and commander of Hamas's armed attack on Israel on October 7. In this attack, Hamas killed 1200 people, most of whom were civilians. At the same time, Hamas kidnapped more than 240 hostages in southern Israel.
With the mediation of Qatar and Egypt, Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on prisoner exchange and a temporary ceasefire. Israel has rescued more than 100 hostages. Up to now, 132 hostages have been detained by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and some of them have been left behind by Sinwar to "protect" him from deadly precision air strikes by the Israeli army.
In an interview, the Israeli hostages released through prisoner exchange and the temporary ceasefire agreement revealed that Sinwar had met with them when they were taken by Hamas to the Gaza Strip.
Yochewad Livshtz, 85, who was released from Hamas' imprisonment last October, met Shinwar during her detention in Gaza. She said, "Shinwar met us three or four days after we were kidnapped to Gaza. I asked him, why don't you feel ashamed to do such a thing to people who have supported peace for many years? He did not answer. He was silent and very quiet. ”
The above information shows that Shinwar has not fled overseas, but has been hiding in the Gaza Strip and continues to fight against the Israel Defense Forces. In December last year, he made his first statement after the outbreak of the Israel Kazakhstan war, claiming that Hamas is destroying the Israel Defense Forces. He also stressed that Hamas will not yield to the Israeli occupation conditions.
Compared with the President of the Hamas Political Bureau, Israel wants to capture or destroy Shinwar, the ruler of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but he is using Israeli hostages as his human shield. Israel is wary of killing them, otherwise accidentally wounding the hostages will cause a big stir in Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu cannot explain and end.
Sinwar uses Israeli hostages as human shields to protect others' personal safety, which will prolong the Israeli Kazakh war and is not very beneficial to Israel: the failure to capture Sinwar has deprived Israel of a major achievement in morale boosting actions; If Shinwar is not eliminated, Israel's victory in the Israeli Ha'aretz war is insufficient, leaving a huge future problem: Hamas may come back and launch another armed attack on Israel in the future.
In the face of Shinwar's use of Israeli hostages as human shields to protect others' personal safety, the Israel Defense Forces have no good way to solve it for the time being, and can only think of moves while fighting.
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