Khan Younis (Gaza Strip) - and it was only one of 477 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange for a captured Israeli soldier and one. But, as in the welcoming ceremonies abated after the swap, and many of the men came in a refugee camp here to pay him their highest respect.Ex-prisoner Yehya al 49 are the highest-ranking members of Hamas in Gaza freed in the operation, returned to the world that he could not have imagined during his imprisonment. Guerrilla young, and collected knives and guns. But he saw that it has moved from the border with Egypt to Gaza City on Tuesday, and thousands of Hamas fighters lining the road, and with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades and drive trucks with heavy machine guns.It was bigger than lethal military force, which is closer to Libya from the Gaza Strip, in order to pass the Hamas arsenal, when Mr. Sinwar participated in the creation of a branch of the Islamic security nearly a quarter century. Got his job, which included the punishment of the "moral", the authors and collaborators with Israel were killed, and four life sentences in an Israeli prison on charges of attempted murder and grievous bodily harm through abuse.
The situation of Mr. Sinwar as leader of the prison and clear within hours of his release on Tuesday, and was invited to deliver a speech on behalf of prisoners in a specially built stage in the city of Gaza. There is a large poster showing fighters the Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Hamas' military wing, and blowing up tanks and abduction of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was freed in the exchange process prisoners, who was arrested during a raid in 2006.
In his speech, Mr. Sinwar outstanding long that many of the prisoners was not, and told the crowd: "We have stopped bleeding days under fire from the occupation in the early years of the first intifada."
In her case was in early 1988, when Hamas was only a month old.
The question is whether he and his fellow prisoners, many of them militants, the military wing, Hamas say for now is to follow the course of the insurrection and pumps, or choose a new destination for the new era.
Sitting in the tent of welcome in his home town of Khan Younis, and was kept by Mr. Sinwar on paper that could be Hamas out of prison, saying only: ". It is too soon I was out for about quarter of a century and came up with the world around me change. I need to rest and catch your breath and see the situation around me, and then you decide. "
He, like many others, concluded that the issue of Shalit was captured Israeli soldiers, after years of failed negotiations, a tactic proven that the release of Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel.
"We can not, however, the question of prisoners can be solved in this way," he said between pauses in receiving well-wishers. "For the prisoners, and the capture of Israeli soldier is the best news in the universe, because he knows that it has opened a ray of hope for him."
He spent his time in prison studying his enemy, and in the final stages, participated in the negotiations for the exchange of prisoners.
"They want to be the tomb of prison for us. Grinder to grind our will and determination, and bodies," he said. "But thank God, with faith in our cause, which became a prison, a haven for worship and academies for the study. We watched a lot. Studied the history of the Jewish people, and can say I am a specialist in the history of the Jewish people and a lot of them. "
Elsewhere in Gaza City on Wednesday, Hamas begin the process of reintegration of returnees another Gaza, and the prisoners who were expelled from the West Bank and Jerusalem.
At the Hotel Commodore on the Beach, Hamas gave staff from $ 2000 to each of the former prisoners together, and the Nokia X3, to clarify the confusion of many of the prisoners in the long run, showing how use them.
Among the faces of some of the tired and expressed regret for the actions that led to jail, and said he understands that it may cause loss to the family of an Israeli soldier was stabbed to death a decade ago. However, others were defiant.
"I'm very proud of what I did, and show no remorse," said Abu Shuaib Snini, 44-year-old Hamas prisoner from Jerusalem who had served 13 years of a life sentence for his role in the attacks.
He said he saw no difference between Israeli soldiers and civilians, because many of the Israelis who serve in the army. "The person who has something wrong I'm sorry. This is a legitimate resistance," he said.
There have been some more extreme of his time in prison.
In a refugee camp in northern Gaza, Jabalia, P. Buss, who tried to smuggle an explosives belt to Israel in 2005, nominally belonging to the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who supports the negotiations.
A picture of former President Yasser Arafat decorate a room in his house, where, on the night of Wednesday, the women who came to greet the man congratulated him while sitting in a tent erected in the street.
However, she scoffed at the idea of diplomacy for the release of more prisoners, and said that the exchange of Shalit have shown that this is the only effective method.
"The negotiations were conducted in the Palestinian Authority has failed," he said. "From this moment, and I hope to kidnap soldiers to exchange for security prisoners is the best way to clean the prisons."
They showed that I do not regret their actions. "Why do I always feel that there is occupation on the ground?" Said. "We will fight until the last breath."
It is still unclear, however, how many of the feelings in the immediate release message or bravado rhetoric for public consumption. Now 26, she said she wanted to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and go to college. She plans to study psychology
