(7 Aug 2024)
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Saida, Lebanon – 6 August 2024
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1. Various of motorcycles and vehicles during parade driving around, people waving Palestinian flags
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabih Radwan, representative of Hamas in Saida:
"We salute our people in Palestine and in the diaspora for these feelings that accompanied the election of the new head of the political bureau, brother Yahya Sinwar, succeeding brother Abu al-Abd Haniyeh, may God have mercy on him. We consider that the election of Sinwar means a new inauguration for a new stage that Sinwar will present, God willing, and there will be more after it, God willing. And we will present, more sacrifices for the sake of liberating Palestine, God willing."
3. Various of motorcade celebration
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Naif Azzam, supporter:
"God bless the leaders of the Hamas movement. This is a nascent movement. Ismail said this movement was created to remain, and God willing it will remain and will expand to all parts of the countries."
5. Various of motorcade celebration, people dancing in street and waving flags
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people gathered in the southern Lebanese town of Saida on Tuesday evening to celebrate the appointment of Yahya Sinwar as Hamas’ new leader.
Sinwar, the group’s top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, was named as Hamas’ new leader earlier on Tuesday in a dramatic sign of the power of the Palestinian militant group’s hardline wing after his predecessor was killed in a presumed Israeli strike in Iran.
The selection of Sinwar, a secretive figure close to Iran who worked for years to build up Hamas’ military strength, was a defiant signal that the group is prepared to keep fighting after 10 months of destruction from Israel’s campaign in Gaza and after the assassination of Sinwar’s predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh.
In Saida, supporters celebrated the news by driving around town while waving Palestinian flags, and dancing in the streets.
"We consider that the election of Sinwar means a new inauguration for a new stage that Sinwar will present, God willing, and there will be more after it, God willing. And we will present, more sacrifices for the sake of liberating Palestine," said Rabih Radwan, a representative of Hamas in Saida.
The appointment is likely to provoke Israel, which has put Sinwar at the top of its kill list after the Oct. 7 attack, in which militants killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and took about 250 as hostages.
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