Turd Fergusen
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Hamas chief and Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar, was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Wednesday after more than a year of eluding Israeli forces, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed Thursday.
“Eliminated: Yahya Sinwar,” the military announced on X.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the death of his country’s most wanted militant as an “important milestone in the sunset of Hamas’s rule in Gaza,” the New York Times reported.
However, the prime minister stopped short of declaring total victory in the war against the terror group.
“Today, evil took a heavy blow — the mission ahead of us is still unfinished,” Netanyahu said.
Sinwar — the architect of the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — was killed in Rafah in a routine raid that caught him by chance.
IDF troops were on a regular patrol, and not specifically searching for the terror chief, when they encountered several Hamas militants.
An Israeli tank launched a shell at a building, causing it to collapse.
Reports had begun circulating earlier in the day that a terrorist matching Sinwar’s description was killed in a military operation in Rafah on Wednesday.
Graphic photos then began circulating showing a man wearing a bulletproof vest, surrounded by grenades, lying in the rubble of a building with a head wound.
The Jewish state’s Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz called Sinwar’s death a “victory for the entire free world.”
“Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,” Katz said in a written statement from his office.
“This is a great military and moral achievement for Israel and a victory for the entire free world against the axis of evil of radical Islam led by Iran.”
Full Article:
Israel confirms they’ve killed Hamas leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar — and it was completely by chance
Hamas chief and Oct. 7 architect Yahya Sinwar was killed in an airstrike in southern Gaza after more than a year of eluding Israeli forces, officials said.
