Thank you, Rebecca. I just read a great article about Sinwar by a Sri Lankan journalist which I cannot share on social media because we are not permitted to even say his name, like in Nazi Germany one could not say the word 'Lenin".

One excerpt: " Sinwar described himself in a 2018 interview with Francesca Borri,

Sinwar: I am not the leader of a militia, I'm from Hamas. And that's it. I am the Gaza leader of Hamas, of something much more complex than a militia—a national liberation movement. And my main duty is to act in the interest of my people: to defend it and its right to freedom and independence. You are a war correspondent. Do you like war?

Borri: Not at all.

S: And so why should I? Whoever knows what war is, doesn't like war.

B: But you have been fighting for all your life.

S: And I am not saying I won't fight anymore, indeed. I am saying that I don't want war anymore. I want the end of the siege. You walk to the beach at sunset, and you see all these teenagers on the shore chatting and wondering what the world looks like across the sea. What life looks like. It's breaking. And should break everybody. I want them free.

B: Borders have been basically sealed-off for 11 years. Gaza doesn't even have water anymore, only sea water. How is living here?

S: What do you think? 55 percent of the population is under 15. We are not speaking of terrorists, we are speaking of kids. They have no political affiliation. They have just fear. I want them free.

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B: What kind of life do you hope for your children?

A life as Palestinians, of course. Head high. Always. Despite it all, I hope they will be strong, and keep on struggling till the day they get freedom and independence. Because I want my kids to dream of becoming doctors not to treat only the wounded, but cancer patients. Like all of the kids of the world. I want them to be safely Palestinians, so that they can be much more than Palestinians."

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The full article is here: https://indi.ca/in-memory-of-the-martyr-yahya-sinwar-after-40-days/