Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, top leader of Hamas and the most wanted man in the Israeli offensive inside the Gaza Stripafter he was identified as the mastermind behind the October 7 attacks. The information was confirmed by the official radio of Israel.
“Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,” the official media reported. Kan public television broadcast a similar message.
The death of Sinwar It occurred in combat between infantry troops and militiamen of Hamas during a routine patrol yesterday afternoon in Rafahsouthern end of the Fringeaccording to Israeli media, citing military sources.
He Army reported a few hours ago that during its military operations in the Fringewithout specifying when or where, had killed “three terrorists” and they were corroborating whether one of them was Sinwarwhile ensuring that there were no Israeli hostages in the area.
While Israel awaited DNA results that would confirm his death, the minister of Defense, Yoav Gallantpublished on his account X an image with the crossed out faces of those murdered Hasan Nasrallah y Mohamed Deif, Hezbollah leader and Hamas military chiefrespectively, with a black rectangle, posing the unknown about Sinwar.
“You will pursue your enemies and they will fall by the sword before you,” he wrote. Gallant quoting verse 26 of Leviticus. “Our enemies cannot hide. We will pursue them and eliminate them,” he added.
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Born in a refugee camp Jan Yuniscity in the south of Gaza, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 after establishing a reputation as a staunch enemy of Israel and on August 6 – after the assassination in Tehran of the then head of the political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh– was chosen to occupy the highest position in the Islamist group’s organizational chart.
He represented the hardest and most belligerent line of the group and He is considered by Israel to be the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 attacks against Israeli territory in which some 1,200 people died and another 250 were kidnapped, which made him the most wanted man by Israel since then and included him on the EU sanctions list.
Sinwar would have carefully planned the October 7 attacks together with the head of the al Qasam Brigades, armed arm of Hamas, Mohamed Deifkilled in an Israeli attack last June in Rebelson the Fringe.
In the past, Israel has assassinated several top Hamas leaders: to the founder of the group, the sheikh Ahmed Yasinwho was in a wheelchair, in March 2004, and his successor Abdelaziz Rantisiless than a month later, as well as two other leaders of the armed wing, Wrong Shehade (2002) o Ahmed Yabari (2012).
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