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Sinwar's 10-Year-Old Son's Letters Reveal Desire to Kill Jews

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IDF Releases Letter from Son of Slain Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar

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Hebrew · Sole source

The IDF released a letter from Ibrahim Sinwar, the 10-year-old son of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, found in Rafah. The letter, written early in the war, expresses the son's longing for his father and a wish to shoot Jews. Intelligence reports suggest Sinwar's widow and children have relocated to Turkey after crossing into Egypt.

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  • The IDF released a letter from the son of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, found in Rafah.
  • The letter, written by 10-year-old Ibrahim Sinwar, expresses a wish to hold a Kalashnikov and shoot Jews.
  • The letter was discovered in October 2024 in a structure where Yahya Sinwar was killed.
  • Ibrahim Sinwar is currently in Turkey with his mother, who has remarried.
  • Intelligence indicates Sinwar's widow and children fled to Egypt and then Turkey early in the war.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday released a letter written by Ibrahim Sinwar, the 10-year-old son of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed earlier in the war. The letter, found in October 2024 in a structure in Rafah where Yahya Sinwar was eliminated, was addressed to his father. In it, Ibrahim expressed his longing for his father and his wish to grow up, hold a Kalashnikov, and shoot Jews. The letter also included drawings of tanks and Hebrew captions for weapons and military border installations. Ibrahim wrote about preparing toy guns, tanks, and Kalashnikovs from paper and cardboard, and expressed hope for the war's end and his father's well-being. Intelligence reports indicate that Sinwar's widow, Samar Muhammad Abu Zammar, crossed into Egypt with the children using a forged passport during the early stages of the conflict and subsequently moved to Turkey, where she remarried. Previously, footage emerged showing her walking in a Hamas tunnel hours before the October 7th attack.

Channel 13Centre · Tel Aviv

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