Hamas’s Gaza leader is surrounded in a bunker, Isreal’s defence minister has claimed as he said IDF forces were “tightening the chokehold” around Gaza City.
Yoav Gallant said Yahya Sinwar was surrounded in a bunker but did not disclose the exact location as he gave a televised press statement this evening.Gallant said Israel’s troops had stormed the terrorist group’s strongholds “from all directions, in perfect co-ordination with maritime and aerial forces”.Sinwar, 61, has been previously described as a “dead man walking” by Israeli officials.Gallant said Hamas’s leader in Gaza was “hiding in his bunker ... without contact with his associates”.
“When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine.” Israel has maintained effective control of the region, despite the IDF withdrawing from the Gaza Strip in 2005.The United Nations and international human rights organisations regard the Gaza Strip as being under military occupation from Israel as it has maintained control of the region by land, sea and air. This has been disputed by Israel, however.
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