{"id":30042,"date":"2024-08-07T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30042"},"modified":"2024-08-07T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:16:54","slug":"israelis-rally-against-new-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/israelis-rally-against-new-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Israelis Rally Against New Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israelis railed against new Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday, with some hoping he will meet the same fate as his predecessor who was killed last week.<br \/>\nNear Tel Aviv\u2019s Dizengoff Square, whose circular fountain is ringed with tributes to Israel\u2019s Gaza hostages and war dead, Sinwar\u2019s appointment was met with disquiet.<br \/>\nThe Palestinian movement\u2019s Gaza chief, an alleged mastermind of the October 7 attack, was named as the movement\u2019s head late on Tuesday after Ismail Haniyeh\u2019s killing in Tehran.<br \/>\n\u201cThe choice speaks for itself,\u201d said Hanan, manager of a logistics company, who did not want to give his family name.<br \/>\n\u201cIt means that they chose Sinwar and did not see fit to look for someone less militant, someone with a less murderous approach.<br \/>\n\u201cI really hope that his (Sinwar\u2019s) future will be just like the one before him, and quickly,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe shadowy Sinwar, who has not been seen since October 7, has emerged as the Palestinian group\u2019s leader 10 months into the Israel-Hamas war.<br \/>\nHis rise comes at a time of sky-high tensions, after Haniyeh\u2019s death and Israel\u2019s killing of a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon raised fears of a coordinated response by Iran and its proxies.<br \/>\nThe Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.<br \/>\nPalestinian militants seized 251 hostages, 111 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 39 the Israeli military says are dead.<br \/>\nIsrael\u2019s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 39,677 people, according to the Hamas-run territory\u2019s health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths.<br \/>\n\u2018Eliminate him more easily\u2019<br \/>\nIn Jerusalem, consultant Laurent Cudkowicz said that Sinwar may now become more vulnerable to Israeli targeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Israelis railed against new Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday, with some hoping he will meet the same fate as his predecessor who was killed last week. Near Tel Aviv\u2019s Dizengoff Square, whose circular fountain is ringed with tributes to Israel\u2019s Gaza hostages and war dead, Sinwar\u2019s appointment was met with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30048,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions\/30048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}