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Israel Eliminates Hamas Gaza Leader Mohammad Sinwar

Benjamin Netanyahu announced the strike in parliament to highlight Israel’s campaign to dismantle Hamas’s leadership.

Muhammad Sinwar.
A video released by the Israeli army in 2023 shows Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, travelling in a car through a tunnel near the Erez crossing.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu | Image: AP
Netanyahu says Israel killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar

Overview

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in the Knesset that Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed
  • Sinwar succeeded his brother Yahya Sinwar after the IDF killed the former leader in October 2024
  • The IDF used bunker-busting bombs to strike a subterranean Hamas command center beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis
  • Defence Minister Israel Katz reported that Sinwar’s body was recovered from a tunnel system on May 19
  • The operation reflects Israel’s intensified campaign to dismantle Hamas leadership under growing humanitarian and diplomatic pressure