Palestine’s former minister of information, Mustafa Barghouti, has said that Yahya Sinwar died a hero and the circumstances of his death have exposed the lies Israel repeatedly spoke about him. Barghouti said Israel claimed Sinwar was hiding inside tunnels, dressed as a woman and sheltering behind Israeli hostages. None of that is true. He died in combat, in the open and unafraid.
In a 27-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Barghouti, who is at present the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, said that Sinwar’s death has made him a martyr and the Israeli video of his death has established his heroism in the eyes of the people of Gaza.
Speaking about Hamas, the organization Sinwar headed at the time of his death, which has already lost Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif, Barghouti said this has not weakened but strengthened Hamas.
