Israel has hailed the death of the 61- time-old Sinwar as one of the most important blows it has dealt Hamas since the Gaza war started with the group’s October 7, 2023 attacks.
Jerusalem The Israeli service on Thursday told how Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a attack after being tracked” going from home to home” desperately seeking to avoid discovery in southern Gaza. Israel has hailed the death of the 61- time-old Sinwar as one of the most important blows it has dealt Hamas since the Gaza war started with the group’s October 7, 2023 attacks.
The Israeli service” confirms that after a time-long pursuit, history( Wednesday), October 16, 2024, IDF( service) dogfaces from the Southern Command excluded Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organisation, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip,” it said in a statement. ” The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and the ISA( Shin Bet internal security agency) over the last time, and in recent weeks in the area where he was excluded, confined Yahya Sinwar’s functional movement as he was pursued by the forces and led to his elimination,” it added.
” IDF dogfaces of the 828th squad( Bislach) operating in the area linked and excluded three terrorists. After completing the process of relating the body, it can be verified that Yahya Sinwar was excluded.” In a after statement, military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Sinwar was killed after being spotted with two other fighters in the home’s Rafah quarter.
” The forces idenfitied three terrorists who were going from home to home on the run,” Hagari told a briefing. colors engaged the group, forcing Sinwar to flee as the group dispersed after being shot.
” Sinwar ran down alone into one of the structures and our forces scrutinized the area with a drone – which you can see in this film– Yahya Sinwar injured his hand in the firing, who can be seen then covered with his face, he threw a branch at the drone,” said Hagari. – No hostages with Sinwar- Drone footage released by the service showed Sinwar alone in a blown- up apartment, with one hand severly injured and head covered in a traditional scarf, throwing a stick at the approaching drone during his final moments.
” We linked him as a terrorist inside a structure and we shot into the structure and we entered to checkup the area. We set up him with a gun and 40 thousand shekels. He was on the run and our forces excluded him,” said Hagari. ” Near the terrorists we excluded were no hostages and our forces are now screening the area,” he added. Israel accuses Sinwar of being the architect of the October 7 attacks along with Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif. The Israeli service said Deif was killed in a strike before this time though the Palestinian group has not verified it.
Sinwar in August replaced Hamas’s former principal Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31. Israel has not reflected on Haniyeh’s death. The Hamas attack last time redounded in the deaths of 1,206 people on Israeli soil, utmost of them civilians, according to an AFP census grounded on sanctioned Israeli numbers that include hostages killed in prison.
Israel’s retaliatory military descent in Gaza has killed 42,438 people, a maturity of them civilians, according to the Hamas- run home’s health ministry. The UN acknowledges the numbers to be dependable.
