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Yahya Sinwar

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Yahya Sinwar

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Also known as Yahia Sinwar, Sinwar Yahya, Yahyā as-Sinwār, Jihia al-Sinwar

Palestinian politician and Hamas leader (1962–2024)

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Yahya Sinwar was a Palestinian politician and senior leader of Hamas who lived from 1962 until his death in 2024. He is significant because he held major influence over Hamas's political and military operations during a period of intense Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including serving as head of Hamas's Gaza operations.

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  • The Thorn and the Carnation (Part II)
  • يحيى السنوار

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  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  2. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 8,000x

  3. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,186x

  4. Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    · 2019 · cited 4,138x

  5. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 3,907x

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Quotes

  • “Life has no meaning without hope, but hope still exists if it is in reassurance.”
  • “Doubt is certain, but cloves are impossible”
  • “I prefer to die a martyr from an F-16 than to die of coronavirus or a stroke or a heart attack...”
  • “Does the world expect us to be well-behaved victims while we're getting killed? For us to be slaughtered without making a noise? That's impossible.”
  • “And I am not saying I won't fight anymore, indeed. I am saying that I don't want war anymore. I want the end of the siege. You walk to the beach at sunset, and you see all these teenagers on the shore chatting and wondering what the world looks like across the sea. What life looks like. It's breaking. And should break everybody. I want them free.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (Arabic: يحيى إبراهيم حسن السنوار, romanized: Yaḥyá Ibrāhīm Ḥasan as-Sinwār; 29 October 1962 – 16 October 2024) was a Palestinian militant and politician who served as fourth chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from August 2024, and as the second leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip from February 2017 until he was killed in a clash with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in October 2024. He succeeded Ismail Haniyeh in both roles.

Sinwar was born in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Egyptian-occupied Gaza in 1962 to a family who had been expelled or fled from Majdal 'Asqalan during the 1948 Palestine War. He finished his studies at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he received a bachelor's degree in Arabic studies. In 1989, Sinwar was sentenced to four life sentences in Israel for orchestrating the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians he considered to be collaborators. He spent 22 years in prison until his release among 1,026 others in a 2011 prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. During his time in prison, Sinwar continued to coordinate the military activities of Hamas. Sinwar was one of the co-founders of the security apparatus of Hamas.

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