Revealed: British campuses where Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar who masterminded October 7 attacks is being hailed as a glorious martyr By Sabrina Miller Published: 18:56 EDT, 25 October 2024 | Updated: 19:13 EDT, 25 October 2024 e-mail 6 View comments The messages on social media were unequivocal in their praise for the dead Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. The terrorist butcher who, on October 7 last year, masterminded the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, was 'a leader, a fighter, a martyr', they declared. 'While all the global forces of evil demanded Yahya's head, he made them work for it.
' Warming to their theme, the posts continued: '[He launched] the blessed Flood [the October 7 terror attack] out of a deep love and care for his people. Through sacrifice, Yahya changed the world . .
. Yahya, you live in every heart.' These words of adulation appeared within days of Sinwar's assassination by a troop of Israeli soldiers after he was unexpectedly discovered in the war-ravaged wasteland of Rafah in southern Gaza .
But who was behind them? Fellow Hamas terrorists lamenting the loss of their murderous leader? Iranian ayatollahs, reeling following a major blow to their proxy forces? Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, on April 13, 2022 At London's Queen Mary University, a handful of Jewish students gathered on October 7 in Library Square to hold a peaceful vigil on the painful anniversary Messages.
