Israel This Wednesday has killed the most Hamas leader and mastermind of the October 7 attacksYahya Sinwar, as reported by the official radio of the Israeli Army.
“Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,” the official media reported. Kan public television broadcast a similar message. Hamas leader, successor to Ismail Haniya, He was the most wanted man in the Israeli offensive inside the Gaza Strip.
Sinwar’s death occurred in fighting between infantry troops and Hamas militiamen during a routine patrol this Thursday afternoon in Rafah, the southern end of the Strip, according to Israeli media, citing military sources.
The Army reported a few hours ago that during its military operations in the Strip, without specifying when or where, it had killed “three terrorists” and They were corroborating if one of them was Sinwar, while they assured that there were no Israeli hostages in the area.
While Israel was awaiting the DNA results that would confirm his death, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant published on his X account an image with the crossed out faces of the murdered Hasan Nasrallah and Mohamed Deif, Hezbollah leader and Hamas military chiefrespectively, with a black rectangle, raising the question about Sinwar.
“You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword,” Gallant wrote, quoting verse 26 of Leviticus. “Our enemies They can’t hide. We will hunt them down and eliminate them,” he added.
Born in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 after building a reputation as a staunch enemy of Israel and on August 6 — after the murder in Tehran of the then head of the political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh—was chosen to occupy the highest position in the organization chart of the Islamist group.
represented the hardest and most belligerent line of the group and 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 in the EU sanctions list.
Sinwar would have meticulously planned the October 7 attacks along with the head of the al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Mohamed Deif, killed in an Israeli attack last June in Mawasi, south of the Strip.
In the past, Israel has killed to several senior Hamas leaders: to the group’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin, who was wheelchair-bound, in March 2004, and to his successor Abdelaziz Rantisi, less than a month later, as well as two other leaders of the armed wing, Salah Shehade (2002) or Ahmed Yabari (2012).
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