Israel confirms the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

Israel believes it has killed Hamas’ top leader and the mastermind behind the October 7 attacks. Yahya Sinwarthe most wanted man in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, as confirmed by the official Israeli army radio.

“Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,” the official media reported, a message similar to that broadcast by KAN public television.

Although Hamas has not yet made an official statement, sources from the Islamist group quoted by Reuters acknowledge that there are indications that Sinwar has died.

According to Israeli media, the death of Hamas number 1 is said to have occurred in a battle between infantry troops and Hamas militiamen during a routine patrol yesterday afternoon in Rafah, on the southern side of the Gaza Strip.

The army reported a few hours ago that it had killed “three terrorists” during its military operations in the Gaza Strip, without specifying when or where, and they confirmed with DNA tests whether one of them was Sinwar.

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Born in a refugee camp in Khan Yunis, 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 – following the assassination in Tehran of the then head of Israel. the political office, Ismail Haniyeh – was chosen to hold the highest position in the Islamist group’s organizational chart.

He represented the group’s hardest and most combative line and is considered by Israel to be the mastermind behind the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli territory, which killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250, making him its most wanted man . since then by Israel and included on the EU sanctions list.

In the past, Israel has assassinated several senior Hamas leaders: the group’s wheelchair-bound founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin in March 2004, and 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).