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Did Sinwar's wife enter the tunnel with him on October 6, carrying a Birkin bag estimated to cost about $32,000?
An IDF spokesperson posted the images of the wife on X, writing Sinwar was responsible for the most brutal attack against Israel in our history when terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred Israelis in their homes, raped our women, burned entire families alive and took over 250 men, women and children, babies, hostage to Gaza
When Sinwar was running for his life and went above the ground, this was the first and last time that he encountered Israeli soldiers in combat,
Throughout the war that Sinwar started, he continued to hide underneath the people of Gaza,
Killing Sinwar is the result of a year of operational and intelligence efforts to bring him and other Hamas leaders to justice. Sinwar has been eliminated. But our mission is not over,
Hagari said in a video statement on Saturday He tried to escape and our forces eliminated him,
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said during a televised briefing Mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who was responsible for the massacre and atrocities of 7 October, was killed today by IDF soldiers."
His death was later confirmed by foreign minister Israel Katz who said Sinwar was the biggest obstacle to ending the war,
said Shalom ben Chanan, who led a division of the Shin Bet security service that specialises in hunting terrorists There is a new landscape, a new geopolitical change in the region,
said David Schenker, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute think tank Let’s make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace [and] a better future in Gaza without Hamas,
We identified him as a terrorist inside a building, fired at the building and then went in to search.”
The IDF released footage of a tank firing at the building in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan refugee camp, and the military spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said Facing and not retreating, engaging in the frontlines and moving between combat positions.”
Sinwar’s successors in the Hamas leadership celebrated the fact that he died in combat, in the words of his deputy, Khalil al-Hayya His movement was between Khan Yunis and Rafah, and our assessment was he was in Gaza the whole time. The footage is the documentation from the film with his family,
They (Hamas leaders) use them (civilians) only as human shields and are preoccupied with their own survival. An example is the amounts of money he (Sinwar) kept wherever he hid,
Hagari said in a video statement You can see how Sinwar and his family members escape to an underground compound under their house on the night of October 6, just hours before the brutal massacre,
Hagari said in a televised briefing