RCPB(ML) adds its voice to those of the Palestinian people and their Resistance in mourning the death of the Palestinian freedom fighter and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, killed in battle against the Israeli Zionist armed forces in Rafah.

30,000 people taking part in the emergency demonstration in London to oppose the continuing Israeli massacres of men, women and children in Gaza and supporting their right to resist, Saturday October 19 2024

Yahya Sinwar, 61, had been a Hamas leader in Gaza since 2017. He was appointed leader of the Hamas Political Bureau in early August of this year after the assassination of the previous leader of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 31.

"We mourn the death of the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim," Khalil Hayyeh, a Hamas official based in Qatar, said in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera. Sinwar "died as a hero and a martyr, fighting against the Israeli army," Khalil Hayyeh said. Hamas "will continue its struggle until the establishment of a Palestinian state on all Palestinian land, with Jerusalem as its capital," he added.

Emergency demonstration, Downing Street, Saturday October 19 2024

Hayyeh also said that "the Israeli hostages will not be released as long as the aggression against the Gaza Strip continues and our prisoners in Israeli prisons are not released".

Hamas' armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, issued a statement saying: "More than a year after the Al-Aqsa Flood battle ... leader Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas, rose as a martyr, facing the enemy head-on with his weapon drawn, engaging with the occupying army at the forefront of the most dangerous combat zones in Rafah, southern Gaza."

Sinwar "died as a martyr and a hero alongside his jihadist brothers," Al-Qassam Brigades said.

"The criminal enemy thinks that by killing the great leaders of the Resistance, such as Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, or Arouri, it can force the Resistance to retreat. The Resistance will continue until it achieves its goal," Al-Qassam Brigades said.

The Palestinian Resistance is supported by an international movement of global reach of unwavering support for the Palestinian just cause. It demands an end to the genocide against Gaza, the liberation of Palestine and defends the people's right of return. The Resistance exists and is growing.

The Resistance forces have made clear they will persist in their just cause of freedom for Palestine, and the world's peoples stand with them. It is the Resistance forces who are in step with the forces which make history.

Our Party expresses its deepest sympathies to the Palestinian people, to the Resistance Movement Hamas and all Resistance forces for the loss of Yahya Sinwar. Let us all stand as one with the Palestinian Resistance and its martyrs.

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