Khamenei assures that Hamas is still “alive” despite the “painful” death of Sinwar

MADRID 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expressed his condolences this Saturday for the death, this week, of the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, in an Israeli attack.

Khamenei has described Sinwar’s death as a “painful” incident for the Palestinian movement but assures that he will remain “alive” thanks to the memory of the deceased, a “brilliant image of the Palestinian Resistance”, as reflected in his last moments captured on camera Israeli, defending himself from the drone that captured his agony.

“The martyr Sinwar faced the cruel enemy with unwavering determination,” said Khamenei, who also points to the late Hamas leader as being responsible for dealing Israel “an irreparable blow” on October 7, 2023, the day that militants Palestinians entered Israel to kill more than 1,200 people in triggering the current Gaza war.

“For someone like him, who had dedicated his life to the battle against the cruel usurping enemy, anything less than martyrdom would have been an unworthy fate,” added the Iranian ayatollah about a “painful loss for the Resistance front.” that, however, “will not stop its advance as it did not after the martyrdom of such eminent figures as (the founder of Hamas) Ahmed Yasin, Fathi Shaqaqi or Ismail Haniye”, in reference to historical figures of Palestinian groups killed in Israeli attacks. .