Published On 20/10/2025
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Israeli Transportation Minister Miri Regev said on Monday that she proposed to the security cabinet to cremate the body of the former leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement.agitation) In the Gaza Strip, Yahya Al-Sanwar.
Regev said – during an interview with the Israeli website Kol Parama – “I suggested in the cabinet that Yahya Sinwar’s body be burned, just as the Americans burned (Al-Qaeda leader) Osama bin Laden.”
Contrary to what the Israeli minister said, bin Laden’s body was disposed of at sea and was not burned, after he was killed by American forces in a special mission in 2011 on Pakistani soil.
Regev continued, “They did not comment on my proposal (to burn Sinwar’s body), but I believe that there are certain symbols that we should not return.”
She added, “Because we know the Middle East and what is happening in the region, I say that I do not want to see Sinwar return to be buried.”
Regarding the second phase of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, Regev said, “Unless the body of the last dead kidnapped reaches Israel, the second phase of the agreement will not enter into force.”
She claimed that there are indications about most of the whereabouts of the bodies, adding, “Perhaps we know more than Hamas, which in turn does not adhere to the agreements consistently.”
In October 2024, about a year after the start of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” and the subsequent devastating Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, Al-Sinwar was assassinated in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, by Israeli bullets while he was fighting. Since then, Israel has kept his body and refused to hand it over within the framework of the agreement to end the war.
On October 10, the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel entered into force, based on the plan of US President Donald Trump, which, in addition to ending the war, is based on a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army, the mutual release of prisoners, and the immediate entry of aid into the Strip.