Iran called Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar a martyr, hours after he was killed by Israeli forces and more than a year after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
Hours after Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces, Iran remembered Sinwar as a martyr whose vision for a liberated Palestine would be carried forward.
Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which prompted the ongoing war between the Jewish state and terror group in the Gaza Strip, was killed Thursday by Israeli forces in Rafah.
« He told you he was a lion, but in reality, he was hiding in a dark den, and he was killed when he fled in a panic from our soldiers », Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised message announcing Sinwar’s death.
In a statement, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations compared Sinwar’s demise to the hanging of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and subsequently convicted of crimes against humanity.
« When U.S. forces dragged a disheveled Saddam Hussein out of an underground hole, he begged them not to kill him despite being armed. Those who regarded Saddam as their model of resistance eventually collapsed », the statement said.
