A senior Hamas official said the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar will not stop the resistance its struggle against the Israeli regime.

Khaled Mashal, the head of the Hamas movement outside Gaza, in a speech to honor the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar, the Late Hamas political leader, said: " Hamas always presented its leaders on the path of martyrdom for the liberation of our lands and the freedom of people from the Israeli occupation, started by the martyrdom of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, who was assassinated by the Zionist regime in 2004 until martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar.”
 
Meshal said that martyred leaders and commanders are icons of the Palestinian nation, and stressed that the martyrdom of Sinwar will not stop the resistance from its final goal of the liberation from the Zionist occupation. 
 
"May this martyrdom be blessed", the Hamas leader said, adding that “the martyrs are victorious in the eyes of God” and invoke a great spirit in their movement and nation.
 
Yahya Sinwar was chosen as the head of the political bureau of the Hams, and succeeded the martyred commander Ismail Haniyeh, two days after Haniyeh was assassinated in an attack in the early hours of July 31 in Tehran.