Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar contacted members of the radical movement, the Walla portal reports citing an Israeli official.
Sinwar resumed contacts with Hamas representatives in Qatar and gave them instructions, the publication’s interlocutor added. The exact date of its shipment is unknown. According to the portal, the Hamas leader’s messages do not indicate a softening of the position on the issue of negotiations on the release of Israeli hostages.
Sinwar established a break with the Hamas branch in Qatar after a long rift, Walla notes. The portal’s sources emphasized that the Hamas leader was out of Israel’s reach all this time. He stopped communicating with his comrades after the liquidation of the Hezbollah chief. Hassan Nasrallah.
In late July, Hamas reported the death of the organization’s Politburo head. Ismail Haniyeh during an attack on his residence in Tehran, where he arrived to participate in the inauguration of the new president of Iran. In early August, Yahya Sinwar became the new leader of the movement, RBC recalls.
