Getty Images Yahya Sinwar, pictured in June 2021, was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday A displaced Palestinian from Gaza has told the BBC that the house the former Hamas leader was killed in was his home for 15 years before he had to flee in May. Ashraf Abo Taha said he was “shocked” as […]
Two Hamas officials told the BBC discussions to choose a successor for the group’s leader Yahya Sinwar, whose killing was confirmed on Thursday, will begin very soon. The officials said that Khalil al-Hayya, Sinwar’s deputy and the group’s most senior official outside Gaza, is considered a strong candidate. Al-Hayya, who is based in Qatar, currently […]
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the Hamas leader’s corpse as experts say Israel will likely try to avoid having his resting place become a shrine.
A unit of Israeli trainee soldiers came upon Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, defense officials said.
Although Yahya Sinwar was a major target of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the soldiers who killed the militant chief had not expected to run across him, Israeli officials said.
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IDF A drone slips through a glassless window of the second floor of a battle-scarred building. Through the dust cloud whipped up by its propellers, its IDF operators spied a lone man, his face covered, sitting hunched on an armchair. It is an injured Yahya Sinwarthe Hamas leader and the mastermind of the Oct 7 […]
The video shows a room that matches photographs obtained by The Times that show the corpse of a man closely resembling the Hamas leader.
Getty Images Israel had hunted Gaza for more than a year to find Sinwar Israeli troops had for more than a year hunted the leader of Hamas, who disappeared in Gaza soon after masterminding the 7 October attacks. Yahya Sinwar, 61, was said to have spent much of his time hiding in the tunnels under […]
A unit from the Israeli military encountered Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, Israeli defense officials said.
