Iran Press/ West Asia: Basem Naim, meanwhile stopped short of confirming the martyrdome of its chief, Yahya Sinwar.
“Hamas is a liberation movement led by people looking for freedom and dignity, and this cannot be eliminated,” senior member of Hamas’s political bureau, told in a statement.
In a statement, Basem Naim listed several Hamas leaders killed in the past and said their deaths had boosted the group’s popularity.
“It seems that Israel believes that killing our leaders means the end of our movement and the struggle of the Palestinian people,” Naim said.
“Hamas each time became stronger and more popular, and these leaders became an icon for future generations to continue the journey towards a free Palestine.”
News sources reported that Yahya Ibrahim Sinwar, head of the political office of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) was martyred in the clashes with Zionist forces in Gaza.
Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas elected its well-known military commander, Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader after the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh assassinated by Israelis in Tehran.
Yahya Sinwar,61, was a high-ranking Hamas military commander who has been fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack.
"Commander Yahya Sinwar was chosen as the head of the political bureau of the Hams, succeeded the martyr Commander Ismail Haniyeh, may Allah have mercy on him," Hamas said in a statement two days after martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Haniyeh was assassinated in an attack on his residence in the early hours of July 31, in the Iranian capital Tehran, where he had attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s newly-elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian, a day earlier.
Sinwar, a high-ranking Hamas military commander, became the leader of Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip in February 2017, taking over from Haniyeh.
Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, said the election of Sinwar as a political leader was a unanimous decision by the movement’s leadership.
Israel's genocide in Gaza after one year killed more than 42,400 Palestinians, displaced 2.2 million people across Gaza, injured more than 100,000 people, and caused all-out destruction of houses and buildings and starvation.
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