Israel confirmed this Thursday having killed the top leader of Hamas and mastermind of the October 7 attacks, Yahya Sinwarthe most wanted man in the Israeli offensive within the Gaza Stripconfirmed the official radio of the Israeli Army.
“Yahya Sinwar has been eliminated,” reported the official media. 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 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 whether one of them was Sinwarwhile ensuring that there were no Israeli hostages in the area.
While Israel awaited the results of ADN 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 Deifleader of Hezbollah and military chief of Hamasrespectively, with a black rectangle, posing the unknown about Sinwar.
“You will pursue your enemies and before you they will fall by the sword,” he wrote. Gallant quoting verse 26 of Leviticus. “Our enemies cannot hide. “We will pursue them and eliminate them,” he added.
Elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017
Born in a refugee camp Jan Yuniscity in the south of 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 assassination 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.
He represented the hardest and most belligerent line of the group and is considered by Israel to be the mastermind of the attacks on October 7, 2023 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 it on the sanctions list of the UE.
Sinwar They would have meticulously planned the attacks of October 7 together with the head of the Brigades at A fieldarmed wing of Hamas, Mohamed Deifkilled in an Israeli attack last June in Rebelssouth of the Strip.
In the past, Israel has assassinated several important leaders of Hamas: 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). EFE
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