IDF Eliminated Hamas Leader Muhammad Sinwar, Netanyahu Confirms– freebeacon.com
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday that the Israel Defense Forces eliminated Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto leader of Hamas and younger brother of slain October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar.
The IDF killed Muhammad Sinwar as part of a May 13 airstrike targeting “Hamas terrorists in a command and control center” beneath the European Hospital in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, according to a report earlier this month by Jewish News. Hamas “continues to use hospitals in the Gaza Strip for terrorist activity, demonstrating its cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings,” Jewish News noted at the time. That report went unconfirmed until Wednesday, when Netanyahu announced to the Knesset that the strike had killed Sinwar.
Sinwar’s death comes after the IDF in October killed his older brother Yahya Sinwar, a longtime leader of Hamas who orchestrated the terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Muhammad Sinwar effectively took over the leadership role following Yahya Sinwar’s death, according to reports.
