The Israel Defence Forces claimed final night time that the Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar was “surrounded and isolated in his bunker”.
Considered the chief orchestrator of the 7 October bloodbath which triggered the newest battle, Sinwar is Israel’s most-wanted man in its assault on Gaza.
The 61-year-old helped construct Hamas’s army wing, the Qassam Brigades.
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He turned generally known as the “butcher of Khan Younis” for his work looking down Israeli spies and Palestinians suspected of collaboration.
Sinwar was convicted in 1989 of the murders of two Israeli troopers and 4 Palestinians and sentenced to 4 life sentences.
He served 22 years earlier than being launched in 2011 as a part of a prisoner swap deal which noticed a captured Israeli soldier exchanged for greater than 1,000 Palestinians.
Micha Kobi, a former intelligence officer with Israel’s safety company Shin Bet who interrogated Sinwar in 1989, instructed the Financial Times he as soon as boasted about making a Hamas member – whose brother was suspected of informing for a rival faction – “bury his own brother alive”.
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During his time in jail, Sinwar devoted himself to finding out his enemy, studying Hebrew and studying the works of early Zionists in addition to Israeli politicians.
Fifteen years into his sentence, he gave an interview in Hebrew on Israeli TV during which he known as for a truce between Israel and Hamas.
Once again in Gaza, Sinwar rose shortly inside the Hamas management and was appointed chief in 2017.
He survived an assassination try after being re-elected in 2021.
Source: information.sky.com”