Israel has killed the leader of Hamas and mastermind of the October 7 massacre Yahyan Sinwar in a Gaza shoot-out.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) troops fired upon a group of Hamas terrorists in a clash in the southern city of Rafah on Thursday.
Photographs from the scene showed the corpse of Sinwar, Israel’s most wanted man, with a bloody hole in his skull.
Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, announced the killing on Thursday afternoon in a statement to the media.
“The mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7th, was eliminated today by IDF soldiers,” he said.
The soldiers who killed Sinwar were not hunting him and came upon him in a chance encounter, Israeli media reported.
As well as Sinwar, Israel has now killed Hamas’ political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and dozens of other top commanders in the two terror groups in recent weeks. »
