Israel did not expect that Yahya Sinwar, the man who collected sentences of more than 430 years in prison and unreservedly released him in the Gilad Shalit deal (Wafa al-Ahrar deal) in 2011, would inflict years later its biggest military loss in its history and impose new equations for the conflict, which he planned and planned.

Israel wanted to make him bow to its terms by force, so it practiced a relentless war of nerves on him, but the steadfastness of his movement in the face of its horrific bombardment of the Gaza Strip for a month and a half, made the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, the beneficiary of what has happened so far.

A wave of new analysis by U.S. intelligence agencies has warned that Hamas's credibility and influence have grown dramatically across the Middle East in the two months since the unprecedented October 7 offensive and the start of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.

Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton said Hamas had won a major victory over Israel. John Bolton said in an article in the British newspaper "The Telegraph" that the exchange deal has a price and gains, but that Hamas fighters, whom he described as "terrorists," reaped the majority of the gains.

Sheikh Mujahid Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin "Abu Muhammad" was born in Palestine, in the village of Al-Joura, Ashkelon district, in June 1936, and grew up in a well-to-do religious family working in agriculture and fishing, his father died when he did not exceed five years of age.

The 1987 Palestinian Intifada marked a shift in the development of the Muslim Brotherhood in the occupied territories. The group's participation in the intifada marked the beginning of the active political resurgence of Islamists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the face of the Israeli occupation on the one hand, and the secular nationalist forces affiliated with the PLO on the other. As the intifada continued and the Muslim Brotherhood participated in it through the Islamist Resistance Movement (Hamas), which was

Hamas Covenant 1988 The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement 18 August 1988 In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah "Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of

Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy described the tunnels used by the Islamist group Hamas as unique, while a British newspaper quoted another official as saying that destroying the Gaza tunnels was like science fiction.  Levy said Benjamin Netanyahu's government was committed to achieving war goals, including the release of hostages and ending Hamas rule.

It is noteworthy that Israel was established on occupied Arab land in 1948, and annexed Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. Throughout its 75 years, it has continued to kill and arrest Palestinians, expand settlement activity in the West Bank, launch military operations in Gaza, and attack Islamic and Christian sanctities in Jerusalem.