Secret documents believed to be the handwritten final “directives” of Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar were uncovered Friday, just over a week after the Oct. 7 mastermind was eliminated by Israeli forces in a chance encounter.
Sinwar’s alleged instructions, written on three torn pages sometime before his death, included his orders regarding the dozens of Israeli hostages still being held captive by Hamas.
“Take care of the lives of enemy prisoners and secure them, since they are the bargaining chip in our hands,” the 61-year-old terrorist wrote, according to images of the documents obtained and published by Palestinian paper Al-Quds.
The missives stated that the hostages are crucial to getting Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli custody, the outlet reported.
Sinwar also included a list of Hamas’ captives and their whereabouts written under the header “Alarqam Trading for Printer Co,” a Dubai-registered printed company, and revealed that any Hamas terrorist who followed through with their “duty” would be rewarded.
The writings also gave names, ages and genders and whether the hostages were civilians or military members, as well as calculations that indicate that Sinwar may have been trying to determine how many captives were still being held in each area.
He also outlined the names of 11 female captives who had been freed in the November cease-fire.
There are 101 Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza, with at least 60 thought to still be alive, according to The Telegraph.
Sinwar was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Oct. 16, just after the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack, which had turned him into the Israel Defense Forces’ number one target.
The terrorist was taken out during a routine IDF patrol searching for Hamas tunnels in Rafah. The troops saw three suspicious men running from house to house in the area and engaged with them, IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said.
A drone was sent into one of the buildings to investigate and spotted a man later identified as Sinwar sitting alone on a chair with his face covered by a cloth and his arm appeared to be badly wounded.
The drone footage showed Sinwar weakly tossing a piece of wood at the device in a pitiful attempt to knock it away.
An IDF then launched a shell into the structure, causing it to collapse.
Sinwar’s body was discovered among the rubble and ID’d by DNA the following day.
The IDF has not yet commented on the terrorist’s purported final orders.
