Hamas Chief Who Deceived Israel Is Target No. 1 Deep Underground
- Yahya Sinwar spent 22 years behind bars, plotting slowly
- Tricked Israelis into thinking Hamas had given up militarism
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Five years ago, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, scrawled a note on a document that he knew Egyptian intermediaries would hand to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Take a “‘calculated risk’ on a ceasefire,” Sinwar wrote in Hebrew, according to former National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat.