- Yahya Sinwar’s friend Esmat Mansour said terrorist plot was ‘miscalculated’
- The Hamas leader’s goals were to lift the “Israeli siege” and release his friend from prison, Mansour said in an interview.
Hamas’s second-in-command is said to regret the Oct. 7 massacre because he did not expect Israel’s retaliation to be “so dangerous,” a friend said.
Yahya Sinwar, who is believed to have orchestrated last year’s brutal terrorist attack on southern Israel, would not have done so if he knew what the consequences would be, according to Esmat Mansour.
Mansour told Sky News that his terrorist friend’s plan was miscalculated and gave Israel an excuse to unleash hellfire on Hamas’ stronghold in Gaza.
Mansour said: “He did not expect that the operation would complicate things so much and go so far and become so dangerous and (give) Israel every reason and excuse to break all the rules.”
Sinwar’s plan was reportedly to use the massacre to promote his friend’s release from prison, turn him into another Hamas leader and lift the “Israeli siege” on the area.
Mansour told Sky News that his terrorist friend’s plan was miscalculated and gave Israel an excuse to unleash hellfire.
Sinwar, the 61-year-old Hamas chief, is the leader of the terrorist organization’s movement in Gaza. He is one in the line of the supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh.
The high-ranking terrorist, who speaks fluent Hebrew, spent 20 years in prison before being released in 2011 after a hostage situation.
Sinwar was one of a thousand prisoners in Israeli prison who were released to Palestine in exchange for just one Israeli soldier: Gilad Shalit.
Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas in 2006 at the age of 19 and spent five years in captivity.
He was the first hostage soldier returned alive to Israel since 1985.
According to the Financial timesIsrael says Sinwar is a ‘walking dead man’ – if they could find him.
The IDF recently released a video that they say shows the terrorist leader being led through a tunnel along with a woman and three children three days after the massacre.
The massacre in Israel by Hamas on October 7 during a music event left 1,200 victims
The IDF recently released footage showing Sinwar escaping through the tunnels
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israeli forces discovered the video in a security camera during an operation in a tunnel, without elaborating on the location.
“The footage shows Hamas leader and mass murderer Yahya Sinwar on the run with his children and one of his wives,” he told a briefing.
‘So he escaped with his family from an underground tunnel to a secure complex that he had built in advance.
‘This video of Sinwar is the result of our hunt. This hunt will not stop until we capture him dead or alive.”