Overview

• The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed on May 31 that Muhammad Sinwar was killed on May 13 in a targeted airstrike on a tunnel complex beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis.
• The operation also eliminated senior Hamas commanders Muhammad Shabana and Mahdi Quara in the same underground facility.
• Israel says it employed precision munitions and extensive intelligence measures to mitigate civilian casualties in and around the hospital.
• Hamas has not publicly acknowledged Sinwar’s death, leaving his role in ceasefire and hostage negotiations uncertain.
• With Sinwar gone, command in Gaza is believed to have passed to Izz al-Din Haddad, delivering another blow to Hamas’s leadership structure.