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Israeli military investigating whether top Hamas leader Sinwar killed in Gaza

17 Oct 2024 1 minute read
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Photo Anas-Mohammed

The Israeli military says it is looking into whether Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a military operation in Gaza.

The military said in a statement on Thursday that three militants were killed during operations in Gaza, without elaborating.

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It said the identities of the three were so far not confirmed, but that it was “checking the possibility” that one of the three was Mr Sinwar.

Mr Sinwar was one of the chief architects of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 last year.

He was chosen as the group’s top leader following the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh in July in an apparent Israeli strike in the Iranian capital Tehran.


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Gareth Westacott
Gareth Westacott
1 month ago

Great news if he has!

Y Cymro
Y Cymro
1 month ago

Although it’s often quoted that one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, I celebrate no ones death as there’s still more terrorists at large in the Israeli Knesset, who rule with impurity and in pain sight. What most are not aware of. There would be no Hamas If it were not for Benjamin Netanyahu & Israel who deliberately sidelined the PLO & Yasser Arafat Fatah party’s influence in Gaza with the sole intention of weakening the influence dividing those in Gaza from the West Bank so stopping the creation of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu treated Hamas like a partner covertly… Read more »

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