Who is Mohammed Sinwar, “the Shadow” who shapes the future of Hamas in Gaza and Israel offers 300 thousand dollars for his head

In the negotiations to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, everyone is waiting for what the current head of Hamas says, Mohammed Sinwar49 years old, who is called “shadow” for his ability to move underground through tunnels, and for his reputation for being relentlessly tough.

It is not known if the younger brother of the hero leader killed in October by the Israelis, Yaya Sinwar, has been definitively chosen for inherit the power of the elder brother. The concrete thing is that Muhammed has managed to partially restore the original apparatus of 24 battalions with which his brother launched the war against Israel on October 7.

Israel has put a price on the head of its worst enemy in Gaza, in 300 thousand dollars whoever allows him to be killed or arrested. Israeli reserve general Ami Avivi believes that Mohammed Sinwar is recruiting hundreds of young recruits.

In Gaza the human carnage has been terrible: Israel acknowledges having killed 17,000 combatants out of the list of 46,000 dead, mostly civilians.

In recent months the ranks of Hamas fighters have been strengthened. The “Wall Street Journal” maintains that “Shadow” directs the reconstruction that in these 15 months of Israeli military operations have left a large part of the Gaza Strip reduced to ruins.

Although there has been no official appointment, the surviving Hamas militant apparatus operates autonomously. guided by Mohamed Sinwar, who today is indisputably the highest-level commander a Gazaalong with Izz al-Din Haddad, military chief of the north of the strip.

The supply sabotaged by the Israelis is being reorganized to ensure that international aid arrives in food and medicine, youth groups are in charge of assembling war devices with the remains that abound in the bombed territories. This task also worries Mohammad Sinwar.

The younger brother of the author of the war against Israel He was arrested by Israeli forces in 1991 on suspicion of terrorist activity in Kizi’ot prison, but was released nine months later.

Mohammed Sinwar He has survived six murder attempts by Israel.

In 2014 Israel announced the death of Muhammad Sinward, but the news turned out to be wrong.

Israel accuses him of being one of the main perpetrators of the Hamas attack against Israel, under the leadership of his older brother, which caused the war to break out on October 7, 2023.

The youngest of the Sinwars was also a collaborator of Mohammed Deif, the “ghost of Hamas”, who led the troops moving under the tunnels and who died in an Israeli air attack in July 2024.

One of the main operations that Mohamed Bajo directed was the organization of the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006, which led to the prisoner exchange in which imprisoned Major Yaha was released.

Hamas is regenerating today with the pain and anger of the Palestinian populations. This reaction worries Israelis who believe that under the leadership of Mohamed Sinwar Hamas’s “strategy of resurgence” from the massacre is succeeding.