A screengrab reveals, in line with the Israeli Military, Hamas Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, taken from a handout video launched Dec. 17, 2023.
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas chief Mohammed Sinwar has been killed by Israeli forces.
Talking on Wednesday on the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, Netanyahu stated that Sinwar was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Netanyahu didn’t specify the place Sinwar was killed. The Israeli navy stated on Might 13 that it had focused Hamas militants in an airstrike across the European Hospital advanced in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Israeli media quoted protection officers saying that Sinwar was the goal, however the navy has but to verify he was killed in that strike.
Sinwar was the youthful brother of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas navy chief in Gaza who Israel says was the mastermind of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel that killed practically 1,200 individuals. Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel final October and Mohammed Sinwar subsequently grew to become a senior Hamas commander in Gaza.
The Might 13 hospital airstrike killed no less than 16 individuals and wounded greater than 70. Citing safety sources, Israeli media reported on the time that Mohammed Sinwar was beneath the world in a tunnel, and was believed to have been killed alongside 10 different militants.
Hamas didn’t instantly affirm if the strike killed Sinwar, who has survived a number of assassination makes an attempt over the previous many years.
