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Amazon Pulls Book by Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Referencing Oct. 7 Attacks After UK Lawyers Intervene
Hamas leader and Oct. 7 pogrom mastermind Yahya Sinwar addressing a rally in Gaza. Photo: Reuters/braheem Abu Mustafa
Amazon is no longer selling a book by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar after being informed by a group of pro-Israel lawyers in the United Kingdom on Thursday that the sale of the book is illegal in the UK and in breach of Amazon’s own policies.
“Thanks for bringing this to our attention,” Amazon said on Friday in response to a letter it received from UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) about Sinwar’s self-published book The Thorn and the Carnation.
“We’ll investigate further to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Amazon added. “In the meantime, the item may be temporarily unavailable to buy from Amazon.co.uk, though it may still be available from merchants on the Amazon.co.uk website.” The book is also no longer available for purchase in the US.
According to UKLFI, the description of Thorn and the Carnation on Amazon said the book is a “compelling novel” that “offers a profound window into the resilience and the ethos” of Sinwar. The book also allows readers to “traverse the corridors of his mind, possibly where the seeds for the ‘Flood of Al-Aqsa’ operation initiated on October 7, 2023, were sown.” It was published in hardback on March 22, 2024, and in paperback on April 8, 2024.
Sinwar was the mastermind behind the Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel that took place on Oct. 7. Hamas terrorists murdered about 1,200 people that day and took more than 250 others as hostages back to the Gaza Strip. Mounting evidence has revealed that the Palestinian terrorists systematically perpetrated sexual violence, including torture and mass rape, against the Israeli people during the Oct. 7 onslaught, which Hamas named “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” The terrorist attack was the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Amazon employee Sasha Trufanov is one of the hostages currently being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 attacks, according to UKLFI. Trufanov is an engineer at the Israeli microelectronics company Annapurna Labs, which Amazon owns.
“Sinwar is likely using him as a human shield and or subjecting him to torture,” UKLFI said. The group of lawyers added that Amazon “should be well aware of the book’s offensive and insulting content and the nature of Hamas and Sinwar’s crimes and views.”
UKLFI told the e-commerce giant that selling The Thorn and the Carnation is in violation of the UK’s anti-terrorism legislation. In November, Sinwar was included in the UK’s counter-terrorism regulations as a leader of Hamas, making him subject to financial sanctions. His assets are frozen, and it is illegal in the UK to make funds or economic resources accessible to him.
In addition to contacting Amazon about the book, UKLFI reported the company to the police. Many Amazon customers also left reviews on the website slamming the book before its removal, saying it “incites hatred,” should no longer be sold, and is “nothing more than a terrorist indoctrination manual.” Amazon’s selling of Sinwar’s book appears to further breach many aspects of the company’s policy regarding “offensive and controversial materials” and “content guidelines for books.”
After Amazon removed The Thorn and the Carnation from its website, UKLFI Director Caroline Turner expressed gratitude that the website “acted quickly to prevent money being illegally channeled to Hamas’ leader, who is currently holding over 130 Israelis hostage, including one of their own employees.”
Over 100 of the hostages abducted on Oct. 7 have been returned to Israel.
The Jewish state has arrested Sinwar, the Hamas terror group’s leader in Gaza, numerous times. Most recently, Israel released him, and other Palestinian prisoners, in exchange for Hamas’ release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
In September 2015, Sinwar was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the US Department of State.
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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