A senior Hamas leader says the terror group’s newly elected Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar is in favor of a Palestinian unity government.
In the first public confirmation of Sinwar’s election, Salah al Bardawil also says Sinwar will continue to respect Hamas’s relations with Egypt.
Yahya Sinwar (screenshot)
“Sinwar believes in national unity, relations with the [Palestinian] factions no less than his predecessor… He is also an Arab man who wishes the best for his Arab neighbors, especially Egypt,” Bardawil tells Hamas’s Al Aqsa News.
Sinwar, a convicted murderer on the US terrorism blacklist, who was jailed in Israel before being released in a prisoner swap, is considered to be an uncompromising radical even within the Gaza-based terror group. He is also thought to be close to Iran, and in contradiction to Hamas’s policy over recent years, reportedly prefers the backing of the Shiite power rather than the Sunni alliance of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
— Dov Lieber
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