Hamas issued a rare statement attributed to the terror group’s chief Yahya Sinwar, who congratulated Algeria’s incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune after he was declared the winner of an election whose results have been challenged by opposition candidates.

The statement said Sinwar stressed Tebboune’s support for the Palestinians and was sending his congratulations in light of the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” using the Gaza-ruling terror organization’s name for its shock October 7 invasion and massacre in southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in the coastal enclave.

He also said “the Palestinian people and their resistance” were fighting “heroically,” while lashing out at “the occupation” for its “barbarity.”

Sinwar, who was named Hamas’s top leader after Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in late July, is believed to be hiding in tunnels under the Gaza Strip and has issued few public statements since the launch of the October 7 attack that he’s accused of masterminding.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant this week vowed Israel would kill Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, a senior commander in Hamas’s military wing, though the government’s official point person on efforts to free the Gaza hostages said Tuesday that if Sinwar relinquishes the terror group’s control of the Strip and releases all the hostages, Israel would provide him with safe passage out of the enclave.

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