Mrs. Sinwar Flees Underground Pre-October 7 Carrying $32,000 Designer Bag

October 22, 2024

by: Kate Norman

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 | Just days after an Israeli military operation eliminated Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a declassified video of Sinwar and his family moving with their belongings into a tunnel just hours before the October 7 massacre last year.

“Sinwar hours before the October 7 massacre,” the video was captioned, “taking down his TV into his tunnel, hiding underneath his civilians, and preparing to watch his terrorists murder, kidnap and rape.”

Sinwar is credited as the mastermind behind the October 7 Hamas attack that saw some 1,200 men, women and children murdered by terrorists and another 251 swept away as hostages to the terror enclave.

The footage showed the terror chief and his family moving into the safety of a tunnel in anticipation of the bloodbath soon to come.

But the IDF Arabic spokesperson, Lt.-Col. Avichay Adraee, pointed something out in the video of Sinwar and his family moving through the tunnels: his wife carrying a luxury handbag.

The handbag, according to Adraee, was a US $32,000 Hermes Birkin designer handbag.

“While Gazans endured hardship under Hamas, Sinwar and his family were shamelessly living in luxury, indulging while sending others to die,” the State of Israel tweeted along with a screengrab of the first lady of terrorism and her designer bag.

Israeli leadership and other activists have long pointed out the wealth disparity between Hamas leadership and civilians in Gaza.

The unemployment rate in Gaza is 44.7%, the US Department of State reported in 2022, with the average daily wage to be US $13.

Often, the wealth disparity is what attracts Gazans to get involved with Hamas—including the financial rewards for terrorists.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is Hamas’s political rival and controls the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria—the so-called “West Bank”—while Hamas controls the Gaza Strip.

Nonetheless, the Palestinian Media Watch [PMW] reported in October last year, shortly after the October 7 massacre, that the PA would be financially rewarding terrorists who took part in the brutal attack against Israelis.

After October 7, the PA sent US $2,807,000 to Gaza to reward Hamas terrorists and their families for participating in the massacre.

The family of each “martyr” (terrorist) would receive 7,400 shekels (US $1,968) for the first month, the PMW estimated, likely with a monthly stipend afterwards.

Israel also captured 50 Hamas terrorists who participated in October 7, and their families were likely to receive 70,000 shekels (US $17,590) for the month, the PMW postulated.

The money they receive for spilling Jewish blood is chump change compared to the wealth of Hamas leadership, often accused of pocketing the millions of dollars received in humanitarian aid each year from foreign governments rather than pouring it back into infrastructure for the poverty-ridden population.

Sinwar’s personal net worth was estimated at US $3 billion, according to media reports.

Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader who was assassinated by Israel in July, had a reported networth of US $4 billion and reportedly lived a life of luxury in Qatar.

Yahya Mahamid, an Arab–Israeli activist, told Bridges for Peace in an interview earlier this year that Hamas’s top leaders all hold a personal wealth of billions of dollars. A single one of the leaders, Mahamid noted, could use their personal wealth to rebuild the Gaza Strip—without any outside funding—and still remain a billionaire.

Instead, Sinwar, his wife and her handbag all hid in the safety of the tunnels while exploiting the people of Gaza—hiding behind human shields and sending brainwashed terrorists off to die for the cause.

Posted on October 22, 2024

Source: (Bridges for Peace, October 22, 2024)

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