HAMAS CHIEF YAHYA SINWAR ASSASSINATED
October 18, 2024Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, has been killed by Israeli forces in the Palestinian enclave, Israel said on Thursday.
Western leaders said his death offered an opportunity for the war to end, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would go on.
The Israeli military said it had killed Sinwar in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
“After completing the process of identifying the body, it can be confirmed that Yahya Sinwar was eliminated,” it said.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas, but sources in the militant group said that indications from Gaza suggested Sinwar had been killed in an Israeli operation.
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Middle East Eye: Israeli Army Radio has announced that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza. Yahya Sinwar was reportedly found dead above ground in Rafah. Sinwar is reported to have been in combat gear when he was killed. To many, his name became synonymous with Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. Sinwar was seen as the architect of the 7th of October attack against Israel, and is considered public enemy number one in Israel. If the conditions surrounding his death are true, it implies that Sinwar was killed in a military encounter while being accompanied by a few guards still involved and directing combat operations and not underground, surrounded by Israeli hostages, as has been regularly suggested by Israeli spokespersons. He was appointed as leader of Hamas following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in July this year in Tehran. Before becoming head of the movement, he was Hamas’s leader in Gaza. Sinwar was born in Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza in 1962, his parents were forcibly displaced by Israel from their home in Ashkelon during the 1948 Nakba. Sinwar was the founder of Hamas’s internal security bodies, and was jailed by Israel for 23 years over his alleged role in prosecuting Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli army. Whilst he was in jail, Sinwar learned Hebrew.