Three handwritten documents recovered from Yahya Sinwar’s possession expose Hamas’s bureaucracy of brutality.
Published by the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds, the first document by Sinwar cherry-picks Quranic verses to convince his terrorists to keep their captives alive. But his true motive shines through the religious veneer as he says the hostages are nothing more than “bargaining chips” for future prisoner swaps.
Like some twisted warehouse manifest, in the second document, Sinwar catalogs 112 hostages scattered across Gaza. Fifty-one were stashed in Rafah, 25 in the Strip’s center, and 14 in Gaza City. Another 22 victims appear without locations—their whereabouts known only to the terror chief himself. Each entry is coldly categorized: age, gender, military or civilian status. He even maintains special notation for Bedouin captives, tracking one in Gaza City and four in Rafah, including a 55-year-old man.
Sinwar’s third document reveals his propaganda playbook—a detailed roster of eleven female hostages released during November’s ceasefire. Each woman’s entry includes her name, age, and any foreign citizenship.
Together, these papers destroy Hamas’s carefully crafted image of a “resistance” movement. Instead, they expose a hostage operation run with ruthless efficiency by a man whose sole mission was to cause as much suffering and pain as possible to his victims and the State of Israel.
