And he said Khamenei In a statement: “There is no doubt that his loss is painful for the resistance front, but this front has not failed to move forward with the killing of prominent figures.”
Iran does not recognize a state Israel And made it support The Palestinian issue One of the pillars of its foreign policy since the 1979 revolution.
Khamenei added,Yahya Al-Sanwar He was a prominent symbol of resistance and jihad against Israel. He stood firm with steely determination in the face of the aggressor and oppressor enemy, and dealt him a blow with wisdom and courage.”
Israel accuses Yahya Sinwar, who remained in the shadows for a long time before assuming the presidency of Hamas this summer, of being the architect of the unprecedented attack carried out by the movement on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.
On the eve of his appointment as head of the political bureau of the movement agitation In August, following the assassination of his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran at the end of July in a strike attributed to Israel, the Iranian leader published on his website a video clip of a rare meeting with Sinwar dating back to 2011.
Yahya Al-Sinwar was at that time a member of a Hamas delegation led by Haniyeh Tehran.
