Hamas tries to rebuild himself under new direction in Gaza

Yahya Sinwar’s younger brother, a mentor of the October 7 massacre, was chosen as a new leadership of the terrorist group whose central goals are the destruction of the State of Israel.

The new figure, Mohammed Sinwar, has now received from the militiah the challenge of restructuring the extremist organization that has taken a hard scam by Israel in response by the atrocities committed in the last 15 months. In addition to the elimination of Yahya Sinwar and the group’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, killed in armed forces and Israeli intelligence attacks, Hamas lost their battle strength, their weapons and their underground hiding places, from where the activities planned.

Despite the weakening of the militia, which had its stronghold and eliminated labor, violence experienced within the enclave since October 2023 contributed to the formation of a new generation of recruits willing to follow in the “struggle” against the state of Israel.

A retired Israeli brigade general, Amir Avivi, told the newspaper Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that “we are in a situation where the pace when Hamas is rebuilding is greater than the pace when the FDI is eradicating them.” He mentioned the group’s new leadership in his comment. “Mohammed Sinwar is managing everything.”

There is not much information available on Sinwar’s younger brother, who would be behind the extremist group’s restructuring – no photos were found from him.

He is known that he spent a time of his detained life in an Israeli prison, as well as Brother Yahya, for joining Hamas’s armed front since Novo and participating in his terrorist activities. Mohammed is believed to be about 50 years old, ten less than the former Hamas leader.

According to the WSJ, Mohammed was considered close to the group’s military wing head, Mohammed Deif, who had the death confirmed by Hamas on Thursday (30), six months after Israel’s defense forces (FDI) announced LO killed.

The group’s new leader in Gaza would be operating discreetly amid the last significant losses in the enclave. Arab authorities familiar with his activity even gave him the nickname “Shadow”, for his almost imperceptible performance.

Still, Israeli government officials pointed out Mohammed Sinwar as one of those responsible for the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in 2006, whose effect was in years later the liberation of his brother (the former Hamas leader dead last year) in an exchange of prisoners. Yahya spent more than 20 years detained in the neighboring territory for killing four Palestinians that Hamas considered suspected of collaborating with Israel in the Gaza Strip.

With the recent deaths of the main terrorist leaders, analysts point to Mohammed Sinwar as the group’s most graduated commander in Gaza at the moment, alongside Izz al-Din Haddad, the military chief acting in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

One of Sinwar’s focuses to restructure Hamas, according to Arab authorities, is the work of recruitment. The sources told WSJ that the new leader, who is on the list of Israeli wanted, has encouraged the enlistment of new militiamen, who face such a calamity situation that they seek to form the rows of the extremist group under the promises of getting food, Medical help and security for their families.

According to an ancient American authority who talked to CNN broadcaster Mohammed Sinwar belongs to the same harsh line as his brother and supervised Hamas’s tunnel building network, used to attack Israel and hide hostages on October 7.