Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar is unrepentant in regards to the Oct. 7 assaults a yr in the past, folks in touch with him say, regardless of unleashing an Israeli invasion that has killed tens of hundreds of Palestinians, laid waste to his Gaza homeland and rained destruction on ally Hezbollah.
For Sinwar, 62, architect of the Hamas cross-border raids that grew to become the deadliest day in Israel’s historical past, armed battle stays the one solution to power the creation of a Palestinian nation, 4 Palestinian officers and two sources from governments within the Center East mentioned.
The Oct. 7 assaults killed 1,200 folks, primarily civilians, and captured 250 hostages, in keeping with Israeli tallies, within the deadliest day for Jews because the Holocaust.