The terror group's leader has remained elusive throughout the year-long war, with the only apparent glimpse of him coming in a video filmed just a couple of days after the bloody conflict began.
Over the past year, Israel has picked off the Hamas leadership one by one - with the chief of the country's army declaring yesterday that the terror group's military wing has been 'defeated'.The terror group's leader has remained elusive throughout the year-long war, with the only apparent glimpse of him coming in a video filmed just a couple of days after the bloody conflict began.
A view of the destruction of Jabalia refugee camp following Israeli attacks, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to be forcibly displaced across the Gaza Strip amid destruction, hunger, and fear,m a year on from the start of Israel's offensive in the enclave Sinwar is unrepentant about the October 7 attacks, people in contact with him have said, despite unleashing an Israeli invasion that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, laid waste to his homeland and rained destruction on ally Hezbollah.
A billboard of new Hamas leader Yahya Al-Sinwar hanging on a wall at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 12 August 2024 Operating from the shadows of a network of labyrinthine tunnels under Gaza, Israeli sources said Sinwar and his brother, also a top commander, have so far dodged airstrikes. One hundred days of war in Gaza have passed since October 7. Thousands of Israelis rally on the streets of Tel Aviv to call for a hostage deal and the ouster of Netanyahu from office
He emerged as a street hero from his brutal 22-year sentence, which he was given for masterminding the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians. He then quickly rose to the top of the Hamas ranks. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, the wiry, grey-haired leader is one of Hamas's most hardline elements and is hell-bent on continuing the fight against Israel, despite the heavy price being paid by the Palestinian people.
'Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil,' said Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, a spokesman for the IDF, said in the days after the attack. 'He is the mastermind behind this, like bin Laden was.
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