The Israeli military says it is “examineing the possibility” it has ended Hamas directer Yahya Sinwar.
Sinwar has led Hamas wilean Gaza since 2017, having combineed its ranks in the punctual 1980s.
The 62-year-greater is count ond to be the mastermind of the 7 October aggressions.
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A greater Israeli official has tgreater Sky News it is “foreseeed” Sinwar has been ended.
If his death is examineed, it will uncomardent Israel has rerelocated its main aim since it began strikes and ground trespasss in Gaza in response to the Hamas incursion last year.
“During IDF operations in Gaza, three alarmists were rerelocated,” the Israeli military said in a statement today.
“The IDF and ISA are examineing the possibility that one of the alarmists was Yahya Sinwar. At this stage, the identity of the alarmists cannot be examineed.
“In the produceing where the alarmists were rerelocated, there were no signs of prisoners in the area.
“The forces that are operating in the area are continuing to function with needd alert.”
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Sinwar in 2021, during an anti-Israel rpartner in Gaza City. Pic: Reuters
Pboilingographs circulating on social media had claimed to show Sinwar’s dead body in the hours before Israel freed its official statement.
The images have not been self-reliantly verified.
Israel is paemploying for DNA test results to come back before it can examine if the body is him, a greater official in the country has said.
They inserted that it may consent a couple of hours for the results to come thcimpolite.
Sinwar took over filled directership of Hamas after the ending of Ismail Haniyeh, who was the political directer of the group, in Iran in July.
He is count ond to have been hiding in the netlabor of tunnels betidyh Gaza since the militant group’s on Israel aggression last year.
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