US focused on hunting down Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, in bid to end Gaza war

The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas’s Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare “total victory” so it can bring an end to the war on Gaza, US officials have told Middle East Eye.

On Monday, The Washington Post reported that the US was offering Israel new intelligence to help track Hamas leaders in exchange for Israel not launching the assault on Rafah.

That report was carried by some Israeli news outlets under the title: US withholding “sensitive intelligence” on Hamas from Israel. However, several current and former US and Arab diplomats, as well as defence and intelligence officials, told MEE it was highly unlikely the US would withhold information on Hamas from Israel.

gravitas_deficiency, (edited )

I would bet a years salary that they’ll keep going even if they find and kill him. Hell, I bet they keep going if he offers himself to the Israelis as a sacrificial lamb to try to stop them from murdering civilians.

Edit: woah. As of this writing, the account that replied and downvoted this is about 9 minutes old. I have successfully inspired someone to join lemmy (yay 😄), but it seems they’re not the caliber of person whose going to improve the discourse here (aww 😞).

GaugeTurkeish,

It seems you have a gambling issue

saltesc,

Yep. There has been nothing to indicate Israel gives a single shit about this guy.

Biden: “What if we hunted down Yayah Sinwat?”

Little Ben: “Who?”

Biden: “The Hamas chief.”

Little Ben: “Ooh, those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.”

Like a fiddle. Again. Even after Biden admitted he got played at the start already. He’s not great at seeing things that are so obvious to the rest of the world.

disguy_ovahea,

It’s calling Netanyahu’s bluff. In the meantime, the IDF won’t be shelling the areas with US military presence.

BaroqueInMind, (edited )

U.S. military ground forces acting as human shields to protect Muslim civilians of another country does not exist as a Bingo square.

njm1314,

Oh Bibi knows who he is, he’s been the one cashing the checks Bibi was writing.

Icalasari,

I'm betting on that even if the Hamas chief offers himself, the states and Israel will try to swing it as a look-a-like and will conveniently find the "real" one shortly after occupying all of Palestine, so they can keep trying to bring attention back to a single person

gravitas_deficiency,

Israel, sure. But I genuinely do not think Biden would go for that.

YeetPics,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Hey I know, wait for him and his family to be enjoying an afternoon in their yard and drone strike the whole fucking block.

BaroqueInMind,

U.S. Air Force drone operators salivating at the thought.

Mrkawfee,

Oh look the War on Terror is back.

Valmond,

The ninja turtles are on the job!

edwardthefma99,
@edwardthefma99@lemmy.world avatar

I hope they get him so justice can be served up for the countless lives lost due to the terror Hamas has done to the people of the world i pray that the people of Palestine can be free from the hands of a Dictatorship

wurzelgummidge,

The US and Israel are losing the propaganda war, they need a name for it’s news outlets to focus on and vilify. They know from experience that promoting hatred for one figurehead will stoke hatred for all Palestinians

Melkath,

Ah, so America just paid to put Sinwar into luxury hiding, and in 20 years or so a top notch rag tag crew of navy seals will land a helicopter in his backyard and summarily execute him, but never produce the body.

Gotcha.

Zaktor,

I too remember when the death of al-Zarqawi ended al-Qaeda in Iraq. I kind of doubt the motivating factor for a young Palestinian to join Hamas is the raw charisma of a far away leader rather than say his family being blown up by a 2000 lb. bomb.

jonne,

Yeah, if I was in Gaza those last 6 months I’d probably be looking to join any organisation that would give me a chance to kill some IDF soldiers of I was going to die anyway.

small44,

As long as there’s occupation and blockage there will be hundred of new Sinwar

NoneOfUrBusiness,

If appeasement worked Poland wouldn't have been invaded. Not that Biden cares, though. Also " in exchange for not launching the assault on Rafah" my man they're already launching it.

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Reminder that there’s zero chance that Netanyahu will stop after Sinwar is dead and this is just Biden being his lap dog and providing him with American military intelligence for free.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Are you saying that Biden should charge him for the information?

bamboo,

Just don’t provide the info. There’s no legitimate reason for Israel to be committing genocide against Palestinians and the US shouldn’t be complicit with it, let alone actively supporting it.

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

No Biden should definitely run a massive spy operation for israel for free and provide them with all the intel Netanyahu wants. The military runs on sunshine and rainbows after all.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Sorry, I’m not really good at picking up tone through text.

Is that sarcasm?

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Are you literally Satan’s maggoty cum fart?

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

What did you call me?

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

You are Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart, are you not?

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Oh yeah, sorry I misread your previous comment.

Burn_The_Right,

🤣 I love watching a master at work! 👏👏👏

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Joke’s on me, they were only pretending to be stupid.

Maeve,

I'm thinking Israel probably provides US Intel and US provides them weapons.

Linkerbaan, (edited )
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Israel has software for mass surveillance (wire tapping, data scraping etc) but in terms of physical surveillance abilities they are lacking (aside from the Big Brother camera system and auto gun turrets they installed in the West Bank).

The UK also ran 200+ spy missions for israel above Gaza, more than one per day.

Maeve,

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