The Israeli army had been trying to find Sinwar’s hiding place and kill him for a year. Now he apparently fell into the military’s net more by chance.
According to media reports, Hamas leader Jihia al-Sinwar was killed in a somewhat accidental clash with Israeli soldiers. The armed forces were on an operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, various Israeli media reported.
There was a confrontation with Sinwar and two other armed Palestinians. It was only after he was killed that the soldiers noticed his resemblance to the Hamas leader. The men who were killed had large amounts of cash and fake passports with them. Sinwar was wearing a vest with hand grenades.
The Israeli army confirmed that soldiers from the 828th Brigade (Bislach) killed three terrorists in the south of the Gaza Strip. In recent weeks they have been increasingly deployed in the southern part of the coastal strip because intelligence information has indicated that high-ranking Hamas members could be hiding there.
Source: Stern
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