Yahya Sinwar represented for Israel the hardest and most belligerent line of Hamasin addition to considering him extremely intelligent. He therefore designates him as the man who planned in detail the terrorist attack of October 7. And today, when he was the head of Hamas, they killed him in an attack in the southern Gaza Strip.
Born in Khan Younis in 1960, Sinwar was until now Israel’s main target inside the Gaza Strip. Coming from a family displaced during the 1948 war, he became the architect of its military branch, the Al Qassam Brigades, after the creation of Hamas in 1987.
At only 20 years old andHe went to prison in Israela place he remained for two decades until participating in a 2011 prisoner exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. “It’s really an indescribable feeling,” he said upon leaving prison.
Becoming a hero for this, Sinwar almost always remained in the Gaza Strip and threatened Israel. “We will come to you with an infinite number of rockets and unlimited soldiers,” he assured in 2022.
According to Israel, He is the mastermind of the October 7 attacksa turning point in the already tense Israeli-Palestinian situation. Israel then claimed it was on its heels, showing footage of Sinwar walking through the tunnels just three days after the attacks.
“Yahya Sinwar hides in his bunker and lets his commanders die on the battlefield,” noted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the time. And after the October 7 attacks, Sinwar no longer appeared in public, even when he was named Hamas leader after Haniyeh’s death, a position he held for only three months.
