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Middle East Crisis: IDF shares video footage showing 'last moments' of Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar
The Israel Defense Forces has released drone footage which shows the 'last moments' of Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar.
In the video, the Hamas leader could be seen sitting on a couch inside a dilapidated room of a nearly destroyed house. He could be seen surrounded by rubble.
The video showed him throwing an unknown object towards the drone.
The arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7th, was eliminated today by IDF soldiers.
— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) October 17, 2024
This is a major military and moral achievement for Israel and a victory for the entire free world against the axis of radical Islam led by Iran.… pic.twitter.com/etglGLpeax
Israel Thursday confirmed that its military executed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar during an operation in Gaza, whom the country accuses of being the mastermind of the October 7, 2023 attack, media reports said.
Country's Foreign Minister Israel Katz posted on X: " The arch-terrorist Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7th, was eliminated today by IDF soldiers.."
Raw footage of Yahya Sinwar’s last moments: pic.twitter.com/GJGDlu7bie
— LTC Nadav Shoshani (@LTC_Shoshani) October 17, 2024
"This is a major military and moral achievement for Israel and a victory for the entire free world against the axis of radical Islam led by Iran," he said.
Yahya Sinwar is dead.
— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 17, 2024
He was killed in Rafah by the brave soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.
While this is not the end of the war in Gaza, it's the beginning of the end. pic.twitter.com/C6wAaLH1YW
"Sinwar's elimination opens the door for the immediate release of the hostages and paves the way for the end of Hamas' rule and a new reality in Gaza," he said.
Katz said Israel now expects the backing and support of the free world to advance these critical objectives together.
Who is Yahya Sinwar?
Yahya Sinwar, the chief architect of the Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, has been at the top of Israel's wanted list ever since. But he had managed to elude detection by possibly hiding in the warren of tunnels that Hamas has built under Gaza over the past two decades.
Previously leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, he was named as its overall leader following the assassination of former political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in August.
Last month, Israel also killed Hasan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement, in Beirut besides executing many of the group's top leadership.
Hamas-led gunmen attacked Israel on Oct 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages into Gaza. In a retaliatory action, Israel has killed more than 42,000 people, turned much of Gaza into rubble, and displaced most of its population.
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