Overview

• The IDF confirmed on May 31 that its May 13 airstrike on a tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis eliminated Mohammad Sinwar.
• A joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said the raid also killed senior commanders Mohammad Shabana and Mahdi Quara.
• Sinwar, who took over Hamas’s Gaza military wing after his brother Yahya’s October 2024 death, was key to planning the October 7, 2023 attacks.
• Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied Sinwar’s death and has submitted its own terms in stalled U.S.-brokered truce and hostage-release talks.
• Humanitarian agencies report over 54,000 Palestinian fatalities and say aid deliveries are repeatedly disrupted by looting and blockades.