Sinwar’s Last Letters to Hamas: “Protect the Hostages, They Are Our Bargaining Goods”

The Palestinian daily Al-Quds has published three handwritten pages that could be the last orders given by the Hamas leader before he was killed. They are instructions for the management of Israeli prisoners

ROME – Three hastily handwritten pages. Secret documents published by the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds: they could be the last orders given by Yahya Sinwar, before being killed by an Israeli raid. Or, at least, the last ones of which there is written trace. Instructions for the management of Israeli prisoners.

In the documents, some notes are censored. But for example, one can read the order to “take care of the lives of enemy prisoners and protect them, since they are the bargaining chips in our hands”. Elsewhere, Sinwar tells his militiamen that the only way to free Palestinian prisoners is to guard “the prisoners of the enemy.”

The three pages also contain other details about 71 hostages, including names, ages and genders, particularly of the older female prisoners.

The first document is written on note paper headed Al-Arqam Commercial Printing Company, and begins with verse 4 of Surat Muhammad: “and then either release them as a favor or let them ransom.”

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