2024-02-14 05:35:00
The Israeli army released a video on Tuesday in which, it claims, Hamas head in Gaza, Yahya Sinuar, appears in a tunnel of the Palestinian territory on October 10, three days after the attack by the Islamist movement in the south of Israel.
Footage from a surveillance camera discovered during a military operation shows “Hamas leader and mass murderer Yahya Sinuar fleeing with his children and one of his wives, guided by his brother Ibrahim Sinuar“said army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
It is “the result of our tracking, a tracking that will only end when we have captured alive or dead“he declared in a televised press conference.
The agency AFP could not independently verify the authenticity of this black and white video, which shows a young man leading a woman, three children and another man, identified by Israeli authorities as Yahya Sinuar, who has not been seen since the attack October 7.
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“This video or any other is not what really matters. What matters is the information we collect that will allow us to find senior Hamas officials and the hostages,” Hagari added, without specifying where the images were filmed.
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Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sinuar is going “from hideout to hideout,” as Israeli forces advanced into the southern Gaza Strip and continued shelling Khan Yunis, his hometown.
Who is Yahya Sinuar
Yahya Sinuar, leader of Hamas.
Sinuar joined Hamas when the group was founded in 1987, the year the first Intifada (the uprising against the Israeli occupation) broke out.
Israel accuses him of orchestrating the bloody Hamas attack on October 7 that sparked the war.
That day, Islamist fighters killed about 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to a report by the AFP based on official Israeli figures.
In response, Israel launched an offensive that has left at least 28,473 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and minors, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, which governs that Palestinian territory.
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