The shooting of Yahya Sinwar and wider turmoil in the , Middle East , may lead to a rise in Islamist extremism, a former MI6 main has said.
Sir , John Sawers, the former head of the , UK’s , foreign intelligence services, was speaking to , Sky News , time after the , Hamas , head was killed.
Mounting frustration over the Israeli problem and the development of aggressive, troubling images captured in , Gaza , could discover Islamist moves turn their attention beyond the , Middle East, he told the network.
“( Islamist ) terrorism may actually get a further boost, if that’s the right word, from events in the , Middle East , — the frustrations that we’ll be seeing because of the lack of movement on the Palestinian question, because of the violence people are witnessing every day”, Sawers said.
Israel , is waging military activities against , Hamas , in the Occupied Palestinian Provinces and , Hezbollah , in , Lebanon.
The two organizations have decades-old global funding and financing networks, but they may soon “revert up to international terrorism,” according to Sawer.
” And it could be that , Hezbollah , and , Hamas, the new leaderships that are focused so much on murder that they’ve become not only criminal organizations designated by Western nations and aimed against , Israel, but they could revert back to global violence, including here in the , UK”.
Knowledge companies in , Europe , and , North America , if “be very much on their feet”, Sawer added.
” But, I think MI5, the officers, the other intelligence companies like my former one, MI6, they need to be very little on their feet, to watch out for a further fall in Islamic terrorism”.
Mustafa Barghouti, a part of the , Palestinian Legislative Council, appeared on the , Sky News , present, describing Sinwar as a “person who fought for his land and who fought for his people, and not as a criminal”.
The , Oct. 7 , Hamas-led assault, which Sinwar had organized, was a reaction to centuries of cultural cleansing conducted by , Israel , against Palestinians, he said.
Barghouti stated to Sky that he had much advocated for peaceful solutions to the Palestinian cause.
Sinwar’s killing, in my opinion, wo n’t really improve or help the situation because Sinwar was n’t the facilitator of a ceasefire, he claimed.
He condemned Northern internet resources for measuring Israeli lives as less important than Israelis, highlighting , Israel ‘s , killing of about 17, 000 babies in , Gaza , during the conflict.
The issue with the majority of American media is that it portrays the killing of an honest Israeli civilian as a criminal act, according to Barghouti.
” While the shooting of … you not say it, that the shooting of 17, 000 children, Arab children, is an act of terrorism and that the criminal in this case is Netanyahu and his Jewish state”.
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