I interrogated Oct. 7 mastermind Sinwar for 180 hours there can be no peace a long as he lives

When he first met Hamas chief and Oct.7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar in 1988, Israel’s top interrogator knew he was staring into the eyes of a radicalized madman hellbent on eradicating Israel.

“I saw a man with murderous eyes, filled with nothing but hate,” former Shin Bet agent Michael Koubi, 79, told The Post.After spending 180 hours with Sinwar following his arrest and imprisonment by Israel’s intelligence angry, Koubi said he came to know the terrorist’s one, true goal: to kill all Jews.

As Israel marks one year since the horrific Oct.7 terrorist attack that was orchestrated by Sinwar, Koubi said the Hamas leader would never agree to a ceasefire, and that peace cannot be restored to the region so long as the Hamas chief still lives.

“Sinwar will never, never, never accept peace,” Koubi said.“As long as he is alive, he will carry out another massacre.

He must be killed.” Israel said last month that the whereabouts of the Oct.7 mastermind are unknown and that he hasn’t been heard from in weeks.It remains unclear where Sinwar is hiding in the Gaza Strip since he disappeared in Hamas’ tunnel system with his family on Oct.

10, 2023 — with reports emerging that he might be dead.US and Israeli intelligence has found no evidence that he was killed.Before he became the leader of Hamas in August, Sinwar grew up in a Khan Younis refugee camp, where he quickly became radicalized by the adults around him.

By the age of 13, Sinwar told Koubi that he would attend public sermons led by Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a disabled man infamous for his ability to manipulate the Quran to justify violent jihadism.Yassin was the first Hamas member Koubi interrogated when Israeli agents arrested hundreds of members of the fledgling group over the murder of two IDF soldiers.

When it came time to speak with Sinwar, Koubi was horrified to learn of the brutal atrocities the Hamas agent committed against his own people, including the four Palestinians who we...

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