The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was rough and raw, showing him wounded and cornered as he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home and faced down the Israeli drone filming him, hurling a stick at it.
Now, it has been confirmed that Yahya Sinwar was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, Israeli specialist Dr. Chen Kugel, who assisted in the autopsy on his body, told The New York Times.
Israel killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in a military operation in Gaza, almost a year after he led the Palestinian group's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 that sparked a fresh war in the region.
Claims that Yahya Sinwar was hiding in tunnels surrounded by captives, beneath civilian centres in Gaza, were used to justify Israel’s genocidal assault on the enclave.