In letters to 10-year-old son, Sinwar sought to instill a hatred for Israel — report
Young boy said to have sent father drawings of dead IDF troops, asked when the war would end, in months of correspondence found near where terror chief was killed
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Troops searching homes near where Yahya Sinwar was killed found letters he sent and received, including correspondence with his 10-year-old son, in which the slain terror chief tried to imbue the child with a hatred for Israel, Hebrew media reported Friday.
According to Channel 12, Sinwar wrote his son several sermons excoriating Israel. The boy, in turn, reportedly sent his father drawings of dead Israeli soldiers, and at one point was said to ask when the war would end.
Sinwar was the architect of the October 7, 2023 invasion and slaughter in southern Israel, when some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst through the Gaza border and massacred some 1,200 people in their homes, communities and at a music festival, and abducted 251 to Gaza, where 97 are still held hostage, sparking the war.
He was killed Wednesday in a chance encounter with Israeli troops operating in southern Gaza’s Rafah, where he had apparently fled from Khan Younis.
On his person, troops were said to find other correspondence containing highly valuable intelligence, as well as NIS 40,000 ($10,760) in cash and a fake ID.
Sinwar had served 23 years in Israeli prison for the murder of Palestinians whom he suspected of cooperating with Israel. In October 2011, he was one of over 1,000 terrorists Israel released in return for Gilad Shalit, a soldier Hamas kidnapped in 2006.
A month after his release, Sinwar, then 49, married Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar, then 31. They had three children, whose respective names, ages and fates are unclear.
The Times of Israel Community.