On October 18 last year, Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the ‘mastermind’ behind Hamas' October 7, 2023 attacks in the country.
THE military vest Hamas kingpin Yahya Sinwar was wearing when he was killed has been found in rubble. It sits draped on the chair in which he was slumped as he was shot dead by Israeli troops. The
Al Jazeera network has aired unseen footage of Yahya Sinwar - the Palestinian hero under whose leadership Hamas had carried out its 2023 attack - three months after he was killed during an Israeli operation in Gaza.
NEW chilling footage appears to show the terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar directing Hamas from the rubble of Gaza before he was killed. Yahya Sinwar was the bloodthirsty mastermind behind the October
The owner of the house, where Israeli forces purportedly killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar last year, says his apartment in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah has become a macabre tourist attraction for admirers of the militant leader.
Hamas faces an uncertain future post-ceasefire, grappling with leadership losses, declining foreign support, and strained relations with Palestinian factions. Amid pragmatic concessions and resistance rhetoric,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by this weekend’s deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah.
YAHYA Sinwar’s brother Mohammed who has taken over as Hamas leader is said to be working to rebuild the terror group. The younger Sinwar, dubbed “The Shadow,” is recruiting
Sinwar was killed in this latest Israel-Hamas war, in which Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, vowed to dismantle and destroy Hamas. And yet, as a ceasefire took hold last Sunday after 15 months of massive destruction and death, Hamas – badly wounded and diminished – has survived and, at least for now, will remain in charge in Gaza.
Sinwar was chosen as the leader of Hamas after his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh was killed in July 2024 by a suspected Israeli strike during a visit to Tehran.
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