The Autopsy Report on top Hamas official Yahya Sinwar revealed that he hadn’t eaten any food during the last 72 hours of his death. As reported by Israel’s Israel Hayom, he and his inner circle felt extreme hunger during their last days.
Sinwar joined Hamas shortly after its inception in the late 1980s. He has remained a key figure in Hamas ever since. He went up the Hamas ranks and became an elected Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, in 2017. Being from a more hard-line faction against Israel, his background was once that of over two decades spent in Israeli prisons earning him a notorious image and a charismatic character of someone who was determined enough to maintain a hold and power amidst such adverse situations. When he was released in an exchange agreement with Israel in 2011, Sinwar made himself more important for being the group’s leader towards its military as well as political policies.
This new report on Sinwar’s final days has elicited various reactions from several observers in the form of remembering old claims of Hamas intercepting and stockpiling relief supplies. The autopsy does raise questions on the plausibility of these old claims because it seems that Sinwar’s group was under enormous deprivation at a time when claims that Hamas had diverted food and other supplies originally meant for civilians in Gaza had emerged.
Just when this new information has come forward to question the allocation of humanitarian resources in Gaza, it suggests that deprivation will even cut across the very highest ranks. The human tragedy of Gaza continues to be an issue of ongoing debate: military actions on one side and the provision of aid to civilians on the other.
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