Although isolated in Gaza, the new leader of Hamas Yahya Sinwar must have found a way to communicate with the organization’s fighters wherever they are in the Middle East, keeping a firm hold on the reins of leadership.

The “robust”, active presence of the new political leader is more than ever required after the assassination of his predecessor Ismail Haniya and the media around the world are focused on the question of how exactly Sinouar manages to coordinate the organization through the tunnels in which is located.

Article in Asharq al-Awsat as well as its publications Al-Ain have focused on the subject of his communications.

“Many wonder how Yahya Sinuar communicates with his comrades through the tunnels“, notes Al-Ain.

“Sinuar is said to no longer trust electronic communications, fearing that the Israeli military will discover his location and kill him“, the report says.

The fact that Sinuar fears his communications being intercepted is obviously reasonable.

It is equally plausible based on the data that he has to move very carefully in order to manage to remain hidden without bringing the organization into a leadership vacuum.

Sinwar knows Gaza very well. He grew up in Khan Yunis and spatially perceives the city and its underground tunnels.

Recent reports of a sketch of Sinuar leaving “aron-aron” spaces in tunnels for fear of detection.

This may be an accurate depiction of reality which proves that even though he is constantly “on the hunt”, he finds a way to work behind the scenes to control Hamas.

Reports do not indicate that he uses couriers to send messages.

Another evidence that Sinuar is in complete control is precisely that the negotiations for the hostages are continuing.

Hamas must have an open line of communication with Sinwar, otherwise it would not be able to “pull” them for 10 months.

These negotiations are largely her “tool”. Doha to keep Hamas in power.

For this to happen, it must at least appear that Sinuar participates with at least a “yes” or “no” to them.

Hamas under Sinwar has more international support than in the past. It has support from Russia, Turkey, China, Iran and other countries.

Clearly, an organization without a meaningful leader could not achieve this. Therefore, Sinwar is not only communicating with the remaining commanders of his brigades, but in a way he is also communicating with Hamas abroad.

Hamas “relies on special communication protocols that it mainly uses to communicate with parties abroad,” notes Asharq Al-Awsat

“This is due, according to the report, to the near-permanent disruption of telephone and internet lines in Gaza, and is also done in an attempt to avoid surveillance by Israeli intelligence services.Al-Ain adds.

“According to sources, Hamas leaders relied for the beginning of the war on the movement’s lines of communication, which Hamas military engineers had developed as early as 2009, and began to evolve intermittently, using mostly foreign technology».

Additionally, the article adds that unnamed sources summarize that Hamas’ military wing had installed underground telephone exchanges connected to old communication lines in some above-ground locations, noting that these areas were periodically checked in an effort to prevent wiretapping.

In the past, Israel found that Hamas even had a computer and technology wing under one of its headquarters UNRWA.

It is worth considering that many international NGOs and other international organizations have in the past been able to bring various types of technology, data centers and communications equipment to Gaza.

It is reasonable to conclude that Sinwar and Hamas may have benefited from this by harnessing some of this technology for their own use or exploiting various sites in Gaza used by international organizations.

Hamas often hides in schools, shelters, and even hospitals, for example.

“Hamas appears to have maintained this method of communication even at the start of the war, despite the Israeli military’s focus on destroying some of these communications systems, along with underground tunnels that it says contain important communications infrastructureAl-Ain noted.

Ceasefire talks are taking place inside the Gaza Strip, “using internal communications systems that are transmitted abroad by various means, including via the Internet and connected to electronic chips, and through the use of encrypted software purchased from abroad».

Since the start of the war on October 7, Israel has been trying to track down Sinwar, but has been unsuccessful, the outlet’s investigation concludes.

“The prevailing belief in Israel is that it does not use cell phones at all because they are easily monitored by Israeli intelligence and the West interested in what is going on in the Gaza Strip».

Sinuar communicates with a limited number of members he trusts through an “interruptible chain of communication” so that if one of them is detected by Israel it will still not be possible to trace the leader of the organization through him.