Yahya Sinwar, immensely courageous leader

Tehran (Qodsna)- October 17 is the first anniversary of assassination of Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.  

Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar, was martyred in Zionist regime’s airstrike in Gaza's Rafah city on October 17, 2024.  

Sinwar was the charismatic and courageous leader of the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation and the key mastermind of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.  

Sinwar did not fear death but sought martyrdom in Gaza and he bravely fought to the very end on the battlefield.

On the first anniversary of the of Sinwar, Qods News Agency (qodsna) interviewed with some international experts and asked them about the personality of Yahya Sinwar.

The interview comes as follows:

Gordon Duff, former UN Diplomat, former U.S. military official, Advisor to The Intel Drop, senior editor of Veterans Today and military analyst:

Yahya Sinwar was a man who refused to leave the ruins. While others might have sought safety, exile, or political compromise, Sinwar chose to remain in Gaza — not as a symbol, but as a presence. He ate the same bread as the people he led. He slept in the same shattered buildings. He did not command from a bunker — he walked the streets, even as drones circled overhead. That is what made him different. He was not detached from suffering — he absorbed it. He did not speak of victory in abstract terms — he measured it in survival, in dignity, in the refusal to surrender memory. His death in October 2024 was not the end of Hamas — it was its consecration. Martyrs do not weaken movements. They sanctify them. And Sinwar, more than most, understood that his value was not in his life, but in what his death would ignite.

Eric Walberg, Canadian writer, senior journalist and political expert:

Yahya Sinwar was an equality courageous and principled Muslim and charismatic leader whose martyrdom will remain in our minds forever. I can still see the drone-produced image of him sitting, mortally wounded, defiantly throwing a stone towards the killer drone that ended his life.

Rodney Shakespeare, a professor at the University of Cambridge and a qualified British lawyer:

Immensely courageous because any Hamas leader or negotiator has to face the daily threat of assassination.  In facing that threat with calmness and dignity he inspired the Palestinian people.

Paul Larudee, American political activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian movement:

Yahya Sinwar was an exceptional leader of Hamas. He molded Hamas into a resistance organization that until today continues to be effective with apparently undiminished capacity. Despite total devastation of Gaza by the Zionist military, Hamas maintains a highly effective fighting force, inflicting thousands of casualties upon the occupiers in the last two years, with the result that many of the Zionist soldiers now refuse to serve.

Sinwar was also a model for the high moral standards of Hamas, who refuse to harm civilians or to fire upon non-combat units of the occupiers, sent to remove the casualties. Even the Zionist captives of Hamas praise the humanitarian treatment that they received, and thanked their captors.