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Hamas publishes never before seen footage of slain leaders visiting Gaza weapons depot
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Hamas’s military wing publishes never-before-seen footage of since-slain Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Saleh al-Arouri visiting weapons manufacturing sites in Gaza and scribbling messages on the rockets.
It is unclear when exactly the footage took place, but Haniyeh and Arouri had been based outside of Gaza for many years before they were killed by Israel in Iran and Lebanon respectively.
In one clip from the compilation, Sinwar can be heard pledging to come at Israel with a “roaring flood.” The name Hamas used for its October 7 onslaught was the “al-Aqsa Flood.”
“We will come at you with countless missiles. We will come at you with an unlimited flood of soldiers. We will come to you with millions of our nation,” Sinwar can be heard saying in the clip, which shows scenes of missiles being launched at Israel on October 7.
Sinwar was killed by IDF soldiers in Gaza in October.
Later in the clip, lyrics of a song declare, “They kill, but we live. Martyrs do not die… We are a flood for Al-Aqsa where the prophets have roamed.”
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