Regarding the exchange for Sinwar along with 999 other prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Koubi said, ‘I warned them that if he were ever released, Gaza would become a state of terror.’
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Shin Bet agent Michael Koubi, who interrogated Yahya Sinwar for 180 hours, said the Hamas leader would never make peace with Israel and “the only solution is to kill him.”
Koubi recalled his first impression of the October 7th mastermind who was imprisoned in 1989 for torturing and killing Palestinians on suspicion of collaborating with Israel’s military.
“I saw a man with murderous eyes, filled with nothing but hate,” Koubi said.
Although the US and other countries urge Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hamas that will necessitate the release of many Palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages, Koubi insists that there can never be peace with Sinwar in control.
“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.”
In 2011, when Israel announced that the terror leader known as “The Butcher of Khan Younis” would be one of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Koubi tried to warn officials that Sinwar should not be on the list.
“I warned them that if he were ever released, Gaza would become a state of terror,” Koubi recalled.
Following the release of Sinwar, he was given a hero’s welcome in Gaza, was elevated to power, and planned the October 7th massacre, which left 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage.
While being interrogated by Koubi, Sinwar boasted of torturing and killing his own people if he suspected they had any connection with Israel.
“He talked about beheading one suspect,” Koubi recalled. “He talked about another victim who he took, had them dig a grave, and then buried him alive .”
“Even after all I’ve heard in my career, I was shocked at what he was telling me,” he added.
“How can someone be so gruesome? How can a man be this cruel?”
Sinwar also boasted about training children to hate Jews and become terrorists.
He discussed separating Palestinian schoolchildren into two groups: Jews and Arabs.
“He spoke one time about giving rubber knives to the kids and made a game of who could kill the most Jews,” Koubi said.
“I know him better than anyone, and he is a danger to the world,” he said. “The only solution is to kill him.”