Who was Yahya Sinwar?
Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, chief architect of Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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Immediately after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel, in which about 1,200 people were killed, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) called Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Islamist militant group in Gaza and the key architect of the attack. “a dead man walking”. A year later, after killing over 42,000 Palestinians, a vast majority of them women and children, and turning much of Gaza into rubble, the IDF announced on Thursday (October 17, 2024) that it has killed its most wanted man in an operation in Gaza’s Rafah.Also read: Israel’s Foreign Minister confirms that Hamas top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in GazaBorn in a refugee camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in 1962, fou...