Video footage released by the Israeli army shows tank fire targeting a building where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was barricaded, authorities said Friday.
Sinwar, the architect of the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, was in a building in Gaza when a tank opened fire, the IDF said. He was killed by Israeli forces on Thursday.
Israel vowed to kill the terror leader after the attack he masterminded killed 1,200 people in Israeli communities and took several hundred others hostage by Hamas terrorist fighters.
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“Yahya Sinwar planned and carried out the October 7 massacre, promoted his murderous ideology both before and during the war, and was responsible for the murder and kidnapping of many Israelis,” the IDF and Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency said in a joint statement Thursday. declaration. . “Yahya Sinwar was eliminated after spending the past year hiding behind Gaza’s civilian population, both above and underground in Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip.”
Sinwar, dubbed the Butcher of Khan Younis by Israel for his violent and brutal methods of torture against his enemies, both Israeli and Palestinian, was widely seen as the driving force behind the October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians carried out by thousands of Hamas militants. .
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, after confirming Sinwar’s death, that Hamas had suffered a “severe blow”, but he vowed that the war in Gaza is not over.
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He added that “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” and “this is the beginning of the day after Hamas, and this is an opportunity for you, the people of Gaza, to finally break away from its tyranny.”
In addition to Sinwar, other top leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah have been targeted for death by Israel for repeated attacks on the Jewish state.
On Friday, the IDF said 1,5,000 Hezbollah terrorist fighters have been eliminated since Israel began targeting the Iran-backed group in southern Lebanon after enduring a year of airstrikes.
“We estimate that we are around 1,500 dead of Hezbollah operatives, and we base our estimates on conservative areas,” said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Herzi Halevi. “I think in many attacks there are more that we don’t know about.”
Source of original article: IDF video: Israeli tank fires on building where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was barricaded before being killed
