“Da grande ucciderò anche io gli ebrei”. Le lettere del figlio del leader di Hamas

“Peace will come when they love their children more than they hate ours,” said Golda Meir. Peace should mean giving Palestinian children back the chance to aspire to something other than a Kalashnikov. But judging by these few lines written by a ten-year-old boy to his father, peace is still a long, long way off.

“Dear Dad, I miss you so much and I wish I could give you a hug and see you triumph. I wish I could grow up, pick up a Kalashnikov and shoot the Jews, Dad.” Signed, Ibrahim Sinwar. At the centre of the images are a tank with Hebrew inscriptions, terrorists, rockets and what appears to be a military border post. There is also a Spider-Man sticker on the letter.

Letters written by the son of the Hamas leader and mastermind behind the 7 October attacks were discovered shortly after Sinwar’s death in October 2024, but are only now being revealed exclusively by The Telegraph. Ibrahim, now aged twelve, is believed to have fled the Gaza Strip and to be living in Turkey (Sinwar’s widow used a false passport in the early months of the conflict to cross the Rafah border into Egypt). (Meotti continues in supplement XVI)

In the letters from Sinwar’s son, there is no hesitation and no metaphor; rather, they are almost like a token of loyalty: they contain an explicit dream of killing, expressed with the same naturalness with which a child of that age might ask for a toy or for the return of an absent parent.

Ahmad Mansour, an expert on Islamism and a scholar of Palestinian origin who now lives in Germany, said that “the letters are not only consistent with Hamas’s methods of educating children, they are also deeply rooted in parts of Palestinian society, particularly in the Gaza Strip. Hatred of Jews – and it is important to note that he is not talking about Israelis, but about Jews – and the killing of Jews are normalised to such an extent that even young children begin to dream about it”. As if growing up in Gaza meant, quite literally, becoming capable of shooting Jews. A child who dreams of shooting Jews is not an argument against Palestinian suffering, but proof that this suffering has been – not least thanks to all the Western complicity that speaks of ‘decolonisation’ – transformed into a weapon of war and extermination, and that it has been systematically subordinated to a hatred that reproduces itself. The decolonisation they call for ends up exonerating those who raise their children to become executioners.

Two years after Sinwar’s elimination, Israel has also released previously unpublished documents drafted by the Hamas leader. In one of the documents, the mastermind behind the 7 October massacre ordered terrorists from Hamas’s elite unit, the Nukhba, to disseminate images of their actions through as many media outlets as possible, with the aim of terrorising Israel. “It must be emphasised to those in charge that they must carry out their actions deliberately, documenting and transmitting the images as quickly as possible.”

Among these images, Sinwar has included scenes such as ‘stomping on the heads of IDF soldiers, shooting at point-blank range, slaughtering people with knives, blowing up tanks, and showing prisoners on their knees with their hands on their heads. We must plan in advance for events that generate terrifying images. Heart-rending scenes, massive fires. Five or ten such images will be enough to plunge their (Israel’s) hearts into anguish. We must organise two or three operations aimed at setting entire neighbourhoods, a kibbutz or similar places ablaze. The terrorists will have to spread petrol or diesel using a tanker, set the fire alight and broadcast the images”.

Ibrahim’s letter and his father’s instructions shed light on one another: the former is the result, the latter the method.

Yet in extensive and influential articles in the West, as early as 8 October, doubts were raised as to whether those images were genuine and, in any case, that all the Ibrahim Sinwars of Gaza have very good reasons to kill Jews. The UN Secretary-General referred to this as ‘the context’.