Palestinian resistance movements pay tribute to 'icon of jihad and resistance'

The Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian resistance movements mourn the martyrdom of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip at the hands of Israeli forces, vowing to continue to resist until the liberation of Palestine from the Israeli occupation.

“Today, we mourn a great and distinguished leader of our Palestinian people,” Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad movement Ziyad Nakhaleh said in a statement on Friday, calling Sinwar “an icon of jihad and resistance.”

Describing his death as “a defining moment in the history of the Palestinian struggle”, Nakhaleh said. “The Palestinian people and the resistance will remain loyal to the path of resistance, and faithful to the spirit of the great leader Yahya Sinwar.”

He stressed that the Palestinian people will continue fighting on the path to al-Quds until victory is achieved.

Fatah al-Intifada movement in occupied Palestine said the martyrdom of Sinwar “confirms to the whole world that he was a fighter in the fields of confrontation and not as the occupation and its supporters, the US administration and the West, alleged that the leaders of the resistance were hiding among civilians, to justify their brutal massacres against civilians.”

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said “our steadfast” people will foil the enemy’s attempts to “achieve their alleged goals of eliminating the resistance and drawing a new map for a humiliated Middle East” by waging wars on Gaza and Lebanon and assassinating resistance leaders.

Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also vowed “an eternal revenge that shall not fade.”

Hamas confirms leader Yahya Sinwar martyred in Israeli strike

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been martyred in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) also said Sinwar’s death “will only serve as an additional incentive, pushing our steadfast and heroic people and their valiant resistance to greater unity and determination” to continue the path of struggle against the American-Israeli alliance and to end the occupation and expel the settlers.

The Popular Resistance Committees and their military wing al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades noted that Sinwar, was martyred “after a life full of jihad and resistance” in which he humiliated “the occupation, its settlers, cowardly leaders, and their agents.”

They vowed to “remain committed to your [Sinwar’s] legacy of resistance until the removal of the malicious Zionist entity from our blessed land, from the river to the sea.”

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement and its military wing, the Mujahideen Brigades, said “the Nazi entity and its extremist terrorist government must pay a heavy price for this crime and all the heinous Zionist crimes against our people.”

Meanwhile, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military wing of the West-Bank based Fatah movement, stressed that the Israeli assassinations of resistance figures “will not succeed in breaking the will of our people to attain their national rights to freedom and independence” and will rather “motivate us to continue on the path of struggle and national unity until victory and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with al-Quds as its capital.”

Sinwar, the head of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement and the commander of Al-Aqsa Storm Operation against Israel, was martyred in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza's Rafah city, a senior Hamas official confirmed on Friday.

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