Discussions about the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar have intensified again. The Israel Defense Forces said again on Thursday they were trying to identify Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as one of three militants killed in Gaza a day earlier. Sources say Israel has also notified U.S. authorities of Sinwar’s death. However, the DNA report is still awaited. In fact, a senior Israeli official said that the person killed in the attack was Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the major Israeli attack on October 7. The official said it was more likely that the terrorist killed by the IDF was Sinwar.
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The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that “the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed at this time.” In fact, Israeli soldiers attacked a building in Gaza on Wednesday. Three people died here. When troopers entered the building Thursday, they found a dead man who looked like Sinwar. Since then, speculation about Sinwar’s death has intensified.
News of Sinwar’s death also came earlier
In fact, reports came days ago that Israel was investigating the possibility that Sinwar was killed in a rocket attack on a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City. However, a senior Qatari diplomat told The Jerusalem Post exclusively that reports of direct contact were false. The diplomat said the contact was established through senior Hamas leader Khalil Haya.
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Who is Yahya Sinwar?
Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israel, became Hamas leader in August after Ismail Haniya was killed in an Iranian bombing. Sinwar was born in 1962 and is one of the earliest members of Hamas. Hamas was founded in 1987.
Sinavel leads Hamas’s security service, which works to expel Israeli spies from the group. Arrested by Israel in the late 1980s, Sinwar admitted to killing 12 suspected associates, earning him the nickname “The Butcher of Khan Younis.” Sinwar was ultimately sentenced to four life sentences for his crimes, which included the murder of two Israeli personnel.
