Israel confirms having killed Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 attack, in Gaza

Israel confirmed this Thursday afternoon that it had killed the leader of Hamas and mastermind of the attack against Israel on October 7Yahya Sinwar, the person most wanted by the Israeli Army in its offensive on the Gaza Strip. “Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,” initially reported a brief official message broadcast by Kan public television and the official radio of the Israeli Army. Shortly after, the Israeli Government let it slip that the information may be true, although without specifically naming Sinwar, and images have been released showing the leader’s corpse can be seen surrounded by Israeli soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have so far only confirmed that the death occurred during a confrontation in which they killed three “terrorists”, although they assure that they are still investigating whether one of them is the current leader of the Islamist group. The Hebrew Army Nor has he given details of the exact location of the operation. The only recent images we had of him were from a video from months ago in which a tunnel in the Strip was seen in which he was supposedly seen walking in the dark. The Israeli forces have clarified that “in the building where the terrorists were eliminated there were no signs of the presence of hostages.”

This latest comment about hostages is due to the fact that for months there had been speculation about the possibility that Sinwar used hostages as human shields. For this reason, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhas expressly asked the IDF to notify the families of the hostages that There is no evidence that they could be in the areaaccording to the Times of Israel.