Yahya Sinwar

Despite this, Netanyahu seemed to take the threats outlined in this document seriously.

Take Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

He said that the aim of the riots is to, quote, tear down Israel's border.

and tear out their hearts.

Now, did you clock the name he said there? Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.

Regarded as a hardliner, Yahya Sinwar rejects any reconciliation with Israel.

The 55-year-old was jailed for murder in Israel but freed after 22 years behind bars as part of a prisoner swap deal in 2011.

Sinwar became the leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 and Israel recognised that he seemed to be more of a strategic thinker than his predecessors.

In 2011, I think it was, Gilad Shalit, who I'm thrilled, delighted for, was exchanged for a thousand Palestinian prisoners, criminals, terrorists.

One of them was Yahya Sinwar, the architect of October 7th.

And what did they do on October 7th? Took 250 hostages.

And thank God all those hostages, well, the ones that were able to get home were taken out and those who were killed, their bodies are no longer there.

I mean, he just sort of reinforces the general narrative, which, you know, I take on to your point that maybe Bibi didn't pursue an option and would, okay, but where McGirt comes down, as I've heard him say, and of course he was the envoy reporting to Jake Sullivan and Biden, Hamas never would have agreed to any of this stuff.

And that really comes down to this figure, Sinwar, who was a mastermind of the October 7th attack.

You guys do a great job of giving his background and just showing who this figure was and how he operated.

But it's quite clear that he was not going to be making it.

Eli, like dozens of other anxious family members in Israel, was desperate to get his loved one back.

But while he supported the Israeli offensive against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, he says he wasn't sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a real plan to rescue the hostages.

It feels like Netanyahu and Sinawa want this war to keep going because, I don't know, maybe it's their interest to stay in control.

I feel like we need a miracle.

He asked for a priest before his execution, and Israel called a priest and gave him the chance to repent or do whatever he wanted to do.

So Israel provided Al-Sinwar with a surgery.

I'm not defending Israel.

I'm just saying that Israel is reasonable.

What you're hearing from me is great skepticism that any of this will lead us anywhere other than the necessity of renewed warfare to truly rid the Palestinian people of Hamas.

Does any part of you fear that Israel might have fallen into Sinwar's trap in a way? There's a statement from one of the leaders of Hamas saying, we won the war.

We put the Palestinian issue back on the front burner.

Now there's this...