(17 Oct 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 22 May 2021
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1. Mid tracking Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, arriving at mourning house of Hamas commander who was killed in the 2021 war
2. Various of Sinwar shaking hands with people and hugging them in the mourning house
3. Wide of Sinwar sitting inside the tent of mourning house
4. Wide of Sinwar hugging man
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 14 December 2022
5. Various of Sinwar arriving at rally
6. Various of Sinwar speaking at podium
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 26 May 2021
7. Wide of Sinwar in meeting with foreign journalists
8. Mid of Sinwar speaking
9. Wide of Sinwar in meeting
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ARCHIVE: Gaza Strip – 2 May 2017
10. Wide of Sinwar (center-left) waving, standing next to late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (center-right) who was assassinated in Tehran in July 2024
STORYLINE:
Israeli forces in Gaza have killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday.
Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year.
Sinwar has topped Israel’s most wanted list since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war just over a year ago, and his killing strikes a powerful blow to the militant group. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of his death.
The military confirmed Sinwar’s death after conducting DNA tests on a body it said was among three militants killed Wednesday during operations in Gaza.
Sinwar was one of the chief architects of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel has vowed to kill him since the beginning of its retaliatory campaign in Gaza.
He has been Hamas’ top leader inside the Gaza Strip for years, closely connected to its military wing while dramatically building up its capabilities.
An Israeli security official said it appeared that the man who turned out to be Sinwar was killed in a battle, not in a planned targeted airstrike.
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