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Mon 28 Oct 2024 8:38 am - Jerusalem Time
Al-Quds' exclusive coverage of Sinwar's wills...wide echoes in major international newspapers
The report, which was exclusively published by the newspaper "I" last Friday, and which included the directives of the head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, the martyr Yahya Sinwar, to his fighters to exercise the utmost care in guarding and securing the lives of the Israeli prisoners, received wide attention in the international and Israeli press.
International newspapers, such as the British Telegraph, the American New York Post, the British Daily Mail, and others, discussed what the newspaper “I” published of three documents in Sinwar’s handwriting, which included directives to the movement’s fighters to secure the Israeli prisoners, the names of eleven prisoners, and scattered numbers about their numbers, genders, and ages.
The Telegraph newspaper titled its report “Secret Hamas documents reveal Sinwar’s final orders.” The report stated: “Three handwritten notes published by Al-Quds newspaper show Sinwar’s instructions on how to deal with enemy prisoners.”
She added: "The documents included the names, ages and genders of the prisoners, as well as whether they were soldiers or civilians, young or old, and statistics showing that Sinwar was counting how many prisoners they had left in each location."
The American newspaper "New York Post" reported what was reported by "Y" under the title "Secret Documents" showing Sinwar's latest handwritten directives.
"Secret documents believed to be the final directives of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar were revealed Friday, a week after the mastermind of the October 7 attacks was killed by Israeli forces in a clash by accident," the New York Post reported.
As for the British newspaper, the Daily Mail, it published a report under the title: “Yahya Sinwar’s last orders have been revealed.”
She added: "Sinwar's will and final instructions, written in his own handwriting regarding dealing with Israeli detainees, appeared after the Israeli army killed him."
The newspapers published a copy of the text of the news item that was published by “I” on its front page, accompanied by pictures of the three documents.
It appears from the way the news was worded in the three newspapers that there is some certainty that these three documents or papers included the last directives of the martyr Sinwar, although there is no indication that they were the last.
The Daily Mail went further, linking the emergence of these documents to the killing of Sinwar by an Israeli army force, knowing that the Israeli soldiers did not find them in his possession after he was killed in a routine clash with a group of Hamas fighters, one of whom was later revealed to be the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Therefore, the source of these documents was not the Israeli army, but other sources.
The report, which was exclusively published by the newspaper "I" on Friday, received great attention from the Israeli media, most notably the Hebrew website "Walla", the newspaper "Maariv", the newspaper "Israel Hayom" and others.
"Disclosure of documents written by Sinwar that include instructions for guarding the kidnapped," under this title, the Hebrew website "Walla" published what was reported by "Y" on Friday.
The details came: During the war, the Hamas leader wrote three documents in which he issued instructions to the fighters to preserve the lives of the kidnapped, and specified their ages and genders, but did not specify in which area they were being held, according to the newspaper "I".
The Walla website added: "The Palestinian newspaper "Ha" published documents written by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during the war, about a week after his assassination by the Israeli army. The first document details the instructions given to the fighters to preserve the lives of the kidnapped. This is because it was described as an important paper for the release of Palestinian prisoners."
He continued: “As for the second document, it mentioned the age and gender of the kidnapped without specifying the area in which they were being held. They included men and women, and the age distribution – over sixty or under sixty. The document also mentioned the presence of soldiers and Arab and Bedouin kidnapped people. According to the document, there are 72 kidnapped people on the list, and it seems that many of them were released in the first deals.”
The Walla report also stated: “The third document included the names of 11 kidnapped women who were released at the beginning of the war, their ages, and whether they held foreign citizenship. Among them were Raymond Kersht, Tammy Metzger, and Nili Margalit, who was noted to be a nurse by profession.”
It is clear from what the Walla website reported that it has more information than what was included in the documents, as it indicated that many of those included in the numbers and statistics in the second document were released in the first deals, as well as the names of the eleven female prisoners whose names were included in the third document.
Sinwar began his directives in this first document with verse 4 of Surah Muhammad and a hadith that spoke about prisoners and the necessity of caring for them and releasing them, whether for a price or without a price. Sinwar urged the Hamas fighters concerned with these directives to “take care of the lives of the enemy’s prisoners and secure them, considering them a pressure card in our hands to liberate our prisoners from the occupation’s prisons.”
He added: "The duty of releasing our prisoners can only be accomplished by guarding the enemy's prisoners, and the reward for liberating the prisoners is recorded for the benefit of the mujahideen."
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Al-Quds' exclusive coverage of Sinwar's wills...wide echoes in major international newspapers