Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was the mastermind of the October 7 terror attack on Israel, has been killed by the IDF.
In the past months, Israel has eliminated a string of senior figures from Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah with airstrikes. Israel has claimed to have killed the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike, but the group has said he survived.But in Sinwar’s case, troops found him by chance.An Israeli military official said that Sinwar “engaged in combat” with Israeli troops operating in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, and was spotted running into a building.
The army had suspected a number of top Hamas officials including Sinwar were in the vicinity, but Sinwar was not the target of that day’s specific operations, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing rules.Visiting the site of the killing, Israel’s army chief Herzi Halevi said that while the military had conducted “many special operations in this war where we had excellent information .... Here, we didn’t have that and the response was very, very strong.
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