In an official statement, the IDF said three Hamas terrorists were killed in one of the strikes the previous day.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in Gaza. In an official statement, the IDF said three Hamas terrorists were killed in one of the strikes the previous day. Later, one of them was identified as Sinwar. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, in a message sent to foreign ministers around the world, expressed confidence that the killing of Sinwar “creates an opportunity” for the release of Israeli captives and for “liberating Gaza from the control of Hamas and Iran.”
Who is Sinvar
Sinwar is considered the main organizer and ideologist of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Sinwar has led the Hamas branch in the Gaza Strip since 2017. Since August 2024, he has also been the head of the Hamas politburo – Sinwar was elected to this post after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Sinwar was born and raised in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, where he joined the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after graduating from the Islamic University. The Israelis arrested Sinwar the first time in 1982 at the age of 19 for “Islamist activities,” and the second time in 1985. During this time, he gained the trust of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Two years after founding Hamas in 1987, he created the internal security organization Al-Majd, which became notorious for hunting down and killing anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel.
I have been against Israel all my life
Sinwar spent most of his adult life—more than 22 years—in Israeli prisons, from 1988 to 2011. His time there, along with solitary confinement, appears to have further radicalized him.
An Israeli government analysis of Sinwar’s personality during his imprisonment described his character as “brutal, powerful, influential, possessing unusual powers of endurance, cunning and manipulative, content with little… Hiding secrets even in prison among other prisoners… Has the ability to attract people.” a lot of people.”
Sinvar’s reputation for brutality and brutality earned him the nickname The Butcher of Khan Yunis.
Sinwar was released in 2011 as part of a deal in which 1,027 Palestinians and Israeli Arabs were released from prison in exchange for an Israeli hostage, IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Immediately after his release from prison, Sinwar also formed an alliance with the al-Qassam Brigades. In 2013, he was elected a member of the Hamas Politburo in the Gaza Strip, and in 2017 he became its leader.
In 2015, the US State Department officially designated Sinwar as a “Specially Wanted International Terrorist.”
In May 2021, the Israelis carried out an airstrike on his home and office in the Gaza Strip. In April 2022, in a televised speech, he called on people to attack Israel by any means necessary.
Source: korrespondent
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