Israeli authorities released a video of less than a minute this Thursday captured by a drone in which Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reportedly seen, before being killed by the Israeli army. Sinwar was killed minutes after these images by the Israeli Defense Forces during an operation in the southern Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state attacked indiscriminately and killed several civilians.
It was the Israeli army which broadcast these images taken with a mini drone in which, he asserts, we see Sinwar, seriously injured handsitting in a dusty armchair and his face covered by a scarf. Likewise, in the video you can see how it throw a stick at the drone, in a futile attempt to shoot it down.
The army identified this person as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.noting that it was followed by a drone while he was dying in the ruins of a building in southern Gaza. Later, dental records, fingerprints and DNA tests confirmed his identity, according to Israeli authorities.
According to the army’s Arab spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, in Wednesday’s attack, three people were identified. a district of Tel al-Sultanneighboring Rafah, south of Gaza, who, while trying to flee a house, were attacked. There, Sinwar, accused of being the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 attacks, allegedly fled to another building where the army opened fire and found him with a bulletproof vest and a gun.
“Last year, Sinwar tried to escape justice.one, escaped. We promised to find him and bring him to justice, and we did. “It was Yayha Sinwar who decided to start the war with Israel, while she was hiding among civilians in Gaza,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in an English-language statement on Friday. The Israeli military reported that it also found Sinwar’s DNA in a document. Rafah tunnel a few meters from another underground tunnel where, last August, the Israeli army recovered the bodies of six hostages taken on October 7.
He survived last year’s attacks
Two Israeli sources told Reuters that operating from a network of labyrinthine tunnels under Gaza, Sinwar had survived last year to Israeli airstrikes, which reportedly killed his deputy Mohammed Deif and other senior leaders.
Born in 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Sinwar He was elected leader of Hamas in the enclave in 2017. after building a reputation as a loyal enemy of Israel and implacable towards informants, since November 6, he was the main leader of the group, which he joined at the age of 19.
In 1989 He was sentenced to four life sentences in Israel for plotting the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian “collaborators”, but was released in 2011 as part of the exchange of 1,047 Palestinian prisoners for the return of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
