Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar wounded after clashing with Israeli troops in southern Gaza on October 16. Click to see full-size image (Screengrab/The Israeli Defense Forces)
Yahya Sinwar, the top leader of the Hamas Movement, was killed while fighting the invading Israeli military in the Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hayya, chief of the group’s branch in the enclave, confirmed in a televised address on October 18.
“Sinwar ascended [to heaven] advancing and not retreating, engaging in the frontlines, moving between combat positions,” the official said.
Hayya, who is based in Qatar, mourned the “martyrdom” of Sinwar and said that his death would boost the group’s determination to fight Israel until the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
“The death of our leader Sinwar and those [killed] before him will only increase the strength and resolve of our group,” he said.
“We continue on the path of Hamas and the spirit of the Al-Aqsa Flood,” he added, referring to the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel on October 7 of last year. “Our banner will not fall but will remain raised high.”
Israeli captives held in Gaza will not return without a ceasefire, full Israeli withdrawal and the release of Palestinian prisoners, Hayya stressed.
Israel’s government and military both confirmed on October 17 that Sinwar was killed in a clash with a patrol in the southern Gaza city of Rafah a day earlier.
Sinwar was armed when he was killed. An Israeli soldier was reportedly seriously wounded by a hand grenade that was thrown by him. The Israeli military released drone footage showing the leader severely wounded after the clash and the tank shelling that killed him.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the killing of the Hamas leader was not the end of his war on Gaza, and that his military would continue fighting until Israeli captives were returned.
“Today evil has been dealt a blow but our task has still not been completed,” Netanyahu said in a video address on October 17.
The death of Sinwar was welcomed by Israel’s closest allies, including the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Sinwar was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp in southern Gaza. He joined Hamas when Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded the group around the time the first Palestinian intifada began in 1987. The following year, he set up the group’s internal security apparatus.
He was serving four life terms for the alleged killing of two Israeli soldiers, as well as four Palestinians he suspected of cooperating with Israel, when he became the most senior of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
Sinwar served as Hamas leader inside Gaza starting from 2017. He was seen by Israel as the mastermind behind the October 7 attack, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and more than 200 others taken captive.
While his death was a heavy loss for Hamas, it will not likely lead to any fundamental change in the policies of the group, especially when it comes to resisting Israeli occupation.
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credit where it is due: at least they weren’t using a pristine apartment and saying it was in the middle of a war zone, like ukraine did in their propaganda psyops. it is totally absurd though still.
there’s a major flaw though: the first time the character raises the stick (or whatever) it clearly moves through the armrest of the chair in front of him.
yes, the chairs look spray painted. the leader of hamas lounging out in a bombed out building camouflaged with dust and a face covering is totally absurd too. the ukrainian photo ops looked like somebody from vogue or something was doing them.
it’s english reporting.
credit where it is due: sinwar was not “hiding” behind hostages in an underground tunnel like all the trolls here claimed, but leading by example, fighting with his men, and fighting til his last breath.
this is cheap, so cheap. anyone can be this. idf you suck.
this pimp is now out of words now that his islamic nazi fuehrer has now ascended to the 72 virgin goat mosh pit
credit where it’s due. the most important thing is that this certified pervert, child rapist, cold hearted murderer and islamic nazi is already dead with a big hole exploded in his head. good riddance
zionist child killing cowards simply can not win against such brave people who have no fear of death.
goat fackers will always lose. they breed like rats and send them into the meat grinder as young as twelve. a culture of impunity.
like sinwar and haniyeh. like nasrallah. like hitler. piss in pieces
you speak of yourself right?
wrath will swallow up against the moslem goatfacker scums who worship the hitler of iran
israel always wins…gaza will be cleansed and so will the west bank…heheheh
one hundred and twenty-four years on, and the jewish supremacists have not managed to conquer the palestinians, despite the tens of billions of dollars of welfare from the us empire.
israhell don’t win shit, americans puppets and nato puppets wins it for them.
why arabs always lost wars?
you know the answer 🖕
crocus rubbing hands together, muttering exlnt over and over
it’s a very sad day for all terrorists.
really? why are you sad?
and what it’s that, that satanyahu still breathing?
what the dogshit sinwar was doing?
taking the fight against a drone and a tank with a stick? 😂🖕😂💩
sinwar lost everything. his comrades..his commanders. no one to turn into a meatshield..he dies alone. and in agony. his last moments caught on drone cam is something out of poetry.
he reaped what he sow. that was the death of him. piss.
a real hero, a legend and inspiration. died a hero’s death leading his men on the front line at the age of 59 against the zio kiddie killers. went on fighting till his last breath when he’d lost one arm and both legs. used his good arm and his last grenade to take out one more kiddie killer. awesome. we all have to die, but the actions taken in life echo throughout eternity.
that’s called “guts”. nothing you zionist coward foreskin eaters knows.
dwell in the peanuts you changed against your soul. your time will come and you will see yourself bargaining in a pity way with death itself.
warriors fight to the last breath.
muslims are not warriors. they are haters of women, cowards, and terrorists. they will gladly make their own children suffer. out!
dont be hypocrite and ignorant . you know the turh but u always listen to the lies of the evil zionist.
jews are lying, thieving kiddie killing filth, a curse on humanity.
behead all those that oppose theodore, the slaughter house mitzhvah pah gore.
typical islamonazis. they always use the victim card
what are islamonazis? are there ukronazis as well? just answer the question.
haters like the evil cunts jews scumbags who murder female journalist.
reverse uno card. who drew first blood? it was sinwar. and the grim reaper finally took his head of the serial moslem rapist out.
we all knows who plays victim card for ever and ever. speak out goy boy!
sinwar was a cold blooded rapist, mass murderer of both gazans and jews.
he adored hitler and his goatfacker prophet muhammad. he only obeys ayatollah khomeini as his pagan god.
he now ascended to the 72 virgin goat mosh pit together with haniyeh and nasrallah.
piss.
it’s pure hate and shit what’s comming out of the mouth of these pornographic and filthy jew mouthes. please don’t answer these mossad agents as they are paid idiots. let them starve for your reactions: don’t feed the mossad monkeys. they get paid for every nonsense sentence with peanuts. they literally sell their soules for peanuts.
triggered islamogoatfucker detected.
anything that is truth will make them puke. 🤮
scumbags like nutteryahoo and harlevy are now being targeted and will soon be going to jew heaven for their 72 kiddies to fiddle with.
where did you get this news, from your mossad shugardaddy?
shlomos are lying thieving swindlers, parasites, enemies of humanity, the synagogue of satan.
he ain’t a warrior. he’s a coward.
just like you, cunt.
“today evil has been dealt a blow but our task has still not been completed,” netanyahu said”
and benny the jewboy psychopath knows a thing or two about evil, from personal experience…lol
ham as is a terrorist organisation. out!
zionist israel is the biggest terrorist organistion in the world
justice served.
the hitler of gaza also as the butcher of khan yunis is no more.
piss
jooz will always draw their pagan evil god hitler for any occasion that suits them. while same ones are good ones in ukronazilandia.
he died like the loser he was 😆😆😆
he was a certified loser. like hitler like sinwar.
so wait, weren’t told by some that sinwar walked in women’s cloths? a lie, evidently.
the goatfacker sinwar was wearing a woman’s veil.
yahya died a hero’s death, grenade in hand, fighting on the front line and taking out zio kiddie killers with his dying breath. his was a viking warrior’s death. he is a martyr and an inspiration. what a contrast to the sisis and the abdullahs, the servile, cringing, quisling scum in bed with israel in egypt, jordan and the petty gulf dictatorships. may he rest in peace.
yahya sinwar will be remembered for his devotion to his faith, the palestinian people and his bravery.
may he rest in peace.
hahahahahaha! yahya sinwar is the hitler of gaza.
that’s a really “brave heart”! the most honorable way to depart: as a man, a leader, a father (for the orpaned, too), a role model for every man. gone with pure heart and consience.
and especially a defender of the oppressed children and women.
“defender of oppressed children and women” in your dreams 😂😂😂
reality is the opposite. rapist and childkiller
please, don’t try to sell your mommy everywhere. nobody would rape any filth like your kind you ugly batards. now die and shut your mouth it stinks like you are already dead.
kind of weird this leader fighting in front line dangerous areas. seems braver and more hands on then obama, bush, trump or any of our american leaders.
in the past, kings and leaders fought on the front line with their men, like sinwar. they took their chances and put their lives on the line. frederick the great, prinz eugen, alfred the great. in 1066 there was a job vacancy for king of england. there were 3 applicants, but william of normandy got the job because the other 2 candidates had been cut up into little pieces the size of oxo cubes. he was literally the last man standing, and he had horses killed under him.
compare that with what we have today. strutting little sawdust caesars like bush, blair, bolton, pompeo, graham and so many others, preening about how tough they are, as they send off kids from some crappy council estate to come back with their legs blown off. vermin, one and all.
he would have been more valuable if taken alive, judged and caged like a beast. i guess israeli soldiers are such sissies they’re even afraid to go mano a mano with a wounded old man and use tank cannon to shoot quail. if uncle sam didn’t pay all of the welfare funded, banana republic of israel’s bills, they wouldn’t be such maniacal, child murderers.
sinwar didn’t got the pager but received a direct crater straight to his head. bye. 🖕
this whole thing stinks of deceit. a smart guy like yahya that constantly watches his back carefully, taken out after getting injured and sitting in this disused building. something is not right with the picture. he was probably lured there with the promise of a ceasefire and executed. or his own men betrayed him or the iranians sold him out in order to reduce the retaliatory attacks.
it’s the dose of your drugs that’s not right. please get help. the usraelis uses the most sophiscated it-tech to infiltrate. there can’t be betrayal between brothers in arms.
name a new leader one that will command not seat on a chair, like if it was waiting for something.
any new leader will end up the same fate like him. dead.
it woun’t end for jews until usrael is destroyed!!! just like hitler nazis were brought to justice through humanity.
it won’t end until the hitler of iran named ayatollah khomeini will be destroyed. like hitler, like nasrallah and sinwar. so does khomeini
learn history you illiterate dune monkey.
hitler the jewish pagan good.
certainly the killing of yahtah sinwar is not the ending of the killing; netanyahu and the zionist mentality enjoy killing far too much to give it away now, when so many opportunities beckon.
yes well that’s what happens isn’t it.
have the idf piss taken gaza yet? whats taking so long
they have to prioritise their tik tok dancing and lgbt parades.
sinwar was very very proud in all the footage of mass cold massacres he committed on october 7. but look at him now:
the last moments where he was desecrated by his fellow terrorist scums and dying alone and in the worst way possible the world world witnessed.
rest in piss.
allah is very proud now that sinwar the goatfacker is double dead.
it’s his county and he has all rights to destroy the invading squatters and babykillers, paid army consisting of completely aliens.
it’s his duty to guard the women and children against looting and killing occupiers.
and you know it, but nevertheless you embrace the satanic zionism – for peanuts.
lol, we seen him hiding. he was not a fighter.
sinwar is a goatfacker hiding like a shitrat. he even made his two armed bodyguards a meatshield.
la la la la, around the world like na na na na.
sinwar on october 7: “allahu snackbar party hard drink more vodka!”
sinwar on october 17: “ya allah habibi please don’t kill me have mercy forgive me!”
throws a stick then receives a squashed potato in his head and dies.
72 virgin goat facker p0rn hub mosh pit has welcomed sinwar
you speak again about your mom? sell her elswhere, we’re not intrested
it’s not about you. it’s about the people who worship the hitler of gaza. 🤮🖕
jewish pagan god named hitler in the religion of brainwashed holohoax shit.
is that your pagan good hitler speaking?
rip sinwar was a true palestinian warrior to his last breath. the zionist child killers can not win against such brave people.
the islamic goat fackers cannot win against the hebrews. and they always lose wars. always.
the world don’t see much of these heroic “brave hearts” defending their people. the western propaganda subdue real news.
the jews think they did a good job and party hard. they will awake hard because they shovel their own grave.
what a nonsense, he fought to the last breath…. and this video proves that he was brave man. please stop nonsense about edited/3d video
try to watch again. he fought against a drone with a stick.
and he got what he deserved. he receiced a big crater in his skull.
that was the result of killing of women, children, elderly and even the disabled.
byebye shitgoatfacker sinwar. piss in pieces.
yeah he fought until the end. and 100s of filthy coward jews can’t help then bringing on a tank against a wounded but curageous old man.
you pitty peanut monkeys.
he deserve that kind of death. he fought like a coward. he died like a filthy rat. his two bodyguards died trying to protect the hitler of gaza. 🦶🇵🇸💩🖕
in amerika all sheep are nervous cuz nobody wants fornikate our obese monkey looking female
sinwar’s wife ate all the humanitarian aid
yahya sinwar, your life was, in a lot of ways, a mirror image of mandela’s. you didn’t live to see the eventual liberation of palestine as mandela saw in his own country, but it will come. to the end, you were defending your people. rest in peace now. “greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” john 15:13