For more than a year, Israel’s most wanted man proved elusive as the weight of the Israeli military hunted him through the ruins of Gaza. But Israel’s relentless search for Yahya Sinwar finally ended in a bombed-out building in the besieged strip’s south.
On Thursday, Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz said Sinwar had been killed by Israeli soldiers in what he called a “great military and moral achievement”. Hamas has not confirmed the death of its leader, the architect of the group’s October 7 2023 attack on Israel.
From the moment just over a year ago when Hamas militants broke out of Gaza and rampaged through southern Israel, Sinwar was catapulted to the top of Israel’s hit list.