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London academic pines for Hamas leader

Head of the political wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Yahya Sinwar. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Well, well, well. On Thursday it emerged that Israeli forces had killed Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar in a ‘chance’ hit, according to Israel’s Kan Radio, after the IDF opened fire on a group of men running into a building. The leader was behind the horrific 7 October attack last year, in which over 1000 people were killed and hostages were kidnapped by the terrorist group. After Israel confirmed Sinwar had been ‘eliminated’, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer released a statement, declaring: ‘The UK will not mourn his death.’ But it seems not everyone is thrilled by the news that Hamas’s leader has been taken out…

Dr Ashok Kumar of London’s Birkbeck Business School has taken to Twitter today to tweet a screenshot from a video thought to be of Sinwar. Kumar captioned the image with the names: ‘Singh, Lumumba, Biko, Guevara, Sinwar’ – classing the terror group chief alongside the leaders of revolutionary movements in a tribute to the Hamas boss.

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