By Peter Fernandez

The monster-mind of the October 7th “Al Aqsa Flood” is finally dead. Malevolent mullah Yayah Sinwar’s days of aberrant Islamic antisemitism were numbered the moment he inflicted the most appalling attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust of nazi Germany. That infamous WWII crime against humanity is also known to  Israelis as “Ha Shoah” (הַשּׁוֹאָה)  or The Catas- trophe. 

Sinwar perished precisely one year and 11 days after the massacre of 1200 Israelis, 43 Americans, and at least 100 foreign workers. According to the Thai Foreign Ministry, 32 of their citizens were murdered by Hamas, while 22 were taken hostage. On March 1st,  BBC News reported that 253 hostages were taken, mostly Israelis, but also an unsubstantiated number of Nepalese, Russian, British, French, Cambodian, and Filipino nationals. Israel Gaza: Seven hostages killed, Hamas says

Who was Yahya Sinwar, anyway? Born to a Sunni Muslim family in the southern Gazan city of Khan Yunis in 1962, Sinwar penned The Islamic pogrom of October 7th, “The Al Aqsa Flood,” after Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest Islamic masjid, or place of worship. The 7th-century golden-domed Al Aqsa Mosque is called “the farthest” from the Masjid al-Haram, or the Great Mosque of Mecca. 

Sinwar perished an exceedingly wealthy ( his net worth approximately $3 Million) as he was trapped just above the labyrinthine terrorist tunnels he was attempting to scurry into before being “terminated with extreme prejudice” by Israeli forces. These million-dollar warrens were funded by Arab and Iranian currencies as well as monies stolen from numerous Western international charities earmarked for needy Gazan and West Bank families. Where Hamas gets its money and how U.S. is fighting it

After joining the Muslim Brotherhood, then known as “Al-Majd” meaning “the glory or magni- ficence,” at a young age, Sinwar was first arrested and detained for several months by Israeli security forces in 1982. The Jewish state re-arrested the maturing terrorist on January 20, 1988, sentencing him to four life terms plus 30 years for “participating in security activities against Israel.” Yahya Sinwar’s long road from Israeli prisons to Hamas leadership | Daily Sabah But what the Turkish periodical failed to mention is that he was found guilty of killing two Israeli soldiers as well as four Palestinian “alleged” collaborators. 

According to a fawning October 18th tribute by Bassem Mroue of the Beirut Associated Press, “In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined, and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen veteran militant who learned Hebrew over the years spent in Israeli prisons and who carefully studied his enemy.” Had Sinwar chosen to live the lecherous luxury in relative safety/anonymity like so many other Hamas and Hezbollah chieftains in the United Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar, perhaps he would be alive today. 

Four days before Sinwar’s violent death, The Istanbul-based Daily Sabah stated in an August 7th article that Hamas history is mirrored by his rise to “political bureau chief” of that  “Palestinian resistance group.” Lamentably, Sinwar was released in 2011 with 1,027 other Hebrew-hating Arabs from an Israeli prison in exchange for one IDF soldier named Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in 2011. Sinwar spent a total of 24 years in Israeli prisons.

An October 21 Hindustantimes (New Delhi, India) article claims that video footage from last year shows Sinwar’s family, including his wife, Al Sayyidah or Mrs. Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar, escaping through an underground tunnel “just hours before the Gaza-based group, on October 7 last year, began terrorist attacks on Israel’s soil.” Mrs. Sinwar, a former professor of Islamic Studies at the Islamic University of Gaza, appears to be clutching a Hermes Birkin handbag worth $32,000. The two wed in 2011.

According to  OCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs), the per capita income in Gaza is about $1,036 per year. 

An October 17th Contents 101. article reported that Sinwar was worth $3 million, much of it appropriated from UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) funds. 

After Sinwar’s death, Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu suggested that now was the time for Gazans to free themselves from subjugation to the vastly weakened terrorist organization.

 An October 17th NBC News.com article stated that “Biden administration officials viewed Sinwar as an uncompromising, ruthless figure who was unmoved by the suffering and the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians as a result of Israel’s retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack.” What is so misleading about the aforementioned statistics of Palestinian deaths is that the Gazan Health Ministry does not differentiate between civilians’ and combatants’ deaths. 

The same article added that this administration concluded that as long as Sinwar was in power, there would be “no possibility of a hostage deal.”It is believed that 97 of the 251 hos- tages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Israel’s elimination of terrorist leaders, often referred to as the “heads of the Hydra,” historically results in “temporary advantages.” Murderous Islamo-terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas consistently replace fallen leaders with other cunning cult-like figures. Sinwar’s brother, Mohammed, is said to be the top candidate for his sibling’s position.  

The author is a children’s book author and Vermont resident.