Yahya Sinwar, the political leader of Hamas, ascended to martyrdom in combat with the gang of killers of Palestinian women and children, self-proclaimed as “Israel,” while defending his land and the land of all Palestinians.

Sinwar was not originally from Gaza. Like 73% of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Sinwar was a refugee. His parents were expelled from their home by Zionists during the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine between 1947 and 1951.

Born in the Khan Younis refugee camp in 1962, Sinwar grew up looking through the bars of what is the largest concentration camp in history, Gaza, at his parents’ village of al-Majdal Asqalan (given a fabricated name “Ashkelon” after Zionist colonization).

Sinwar spent more than 20 years kidnapped and imprisoned in Israeli dungeons. Released in 2011 in a prisoner exchange, Sinwar took on a leadership role in the Palestinian enclave in 2017 and assumed the leadership of Hamas’s political office in August 2024, following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh by “Israel” in Tehran.

Regarded as the political architect of the self-defense operation on October 7, 2023, Yahya Sinwar paved a new path of resistance, putting the Palestinian cause back on the map with a clear message to the world: there will be no peace without justice for the Palestinian people.

Contrary to what Zionists and their Western media vassals sold for over a year, Yahya Sinwar was not “in a tunnel surrounded by hostages and security,” but died with weapons in hand, on the front line of resistance against the Tel Aviv genocidaires, armed by the equally murderous and cowardly forces of Washington, London, and Berlin.

While cowards like Netanyahu and his partners in the Palestinian genocide emerge directly from the sewers where they hide and into the latrine of history, Sinwar will be remembered as a martyr and hero of the Palestinian people, alongside figures like Yasser Arafat and Sheikh Izz El-Din Qassam, and all those who reject living under the colonial, genocidal, racist, supremacist yoke of “Israel” in Palestine.

The Palestinian people have the primacy to be the masters of their own destiny, of their victory, and of their invincibility. While Palestinians are being killed to prevent the demise of the Zionist colonial project in Palestine, which is counting its final days, they are recognized worldwide as victims of televised extermination and as a heroic and invincible people.

They are a people that has never left its lands and has resisted all the colonial empires and occupations that have passed through. And this time will be no different. The Palestinian people will remain in their lands, even while facing the largest and bloodiest empire known to history: the United States, which wages proxy war through the genocidal gang self-identified as “Israel,” the greatest killers in history.

Palestine will be free, in our lifetime, from genocide, colonization, racism, supremacism, occupation, and apartheid. From Zionism. From the river to the sea, from Gaza to Galilee.

Free Palestine! From Brazil, October 17, 2024, 77th year of the Nakba.

This article has been translated from Portuguese by Kawsachun News. Read it in its original Portuguese here.