The spouse of the architect of the Oct 7 bloodbath was smuggled out of Gaza and remarried in Turkey, it has been reported.
Samar Muhammad Abu Zamar, the spouse of Yahya Sinwar, slipped out of the enclave utilizing a pretend passport and carrying vital quantities of money, sources in Gaza advised Ynet, an Israeli information web site.
She married once more just a few months after Sinwar, Hamas’s navy commander, was killed by Israeli troops in October 2024, the information outlet reported.
Sources stated her wedding ceremony and resettlement in Turkey have been organised by Fathi Hammad, a Hamas political bureau member who has been linked to makes an attempt to cover terror operatives and their households.
In 2024, footage was launched displaying Abu Zamar strolling by a Hamas tunnel, clutching what seemed to be a designer purse, hours earlier than the Oct 7 assaults.
Though formally unconfirmed, the story has been extensively reported in Israel.
Hamas, which types itself as the first drive of Palestinian resistance to Israel, has repeatedly been accused of drawing power from the struggling of bizarre Gazans who can not go away the territory.
Ynet reported an Israeli safety official as saying that each Abu Zamar and Najwa Sinwar, the spouse of Mohammed Sinwar, who took command of Hamas after his brother was killed, left Gaza through Rafah.
“She’s now not right here – she crossed by the Rafah border utilizing a pretend passport,” a supply stated of Abu Zamar, saying the escape required “high-level coordination, logistical help, and enormous sums of cash that common Gazans don’t have”.
The ladies are believed to have escaped through a smuggling community that Hamas has lengthy had in place to evacuate the households of its leaders.
The report comes amid rising resentment from Palestinians in the direction of Hamas after 19 months of struggle.
Footage and movies displaying senior members of the group residing comfy life elsewhere within the Center East have additionally fuelled criticism.
One Gazan civilian stated: “They ship their youngsters to review in Turkey and Qatar – and ship ours to the grave.
“What makes them totally different from any corrupt ruler within the Arab world?
“They solely take care of themselves.”
Hamas is now believed to be beneath the command of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the one senior commander from Oct 7 nonetheless alive.
Hostage negotiations are believed to have been hampered by problem in speaking with what’s left of Hamas’s navy construction within the Strip.
Though teams of fighters are nonetheless inflicting common losses on the IDF, the group is now not able to organised navy operations throughout a large space.
