The Israeli army has published images in which Yahya Sinuar, head of Hamas in Gaza and true power of the shadow Islamist group, supposedly appears in an underground tunnel. The video was recorded on October 10, three days after the terrorist group’s attack in southern Israel.
Images from a surveillance camera, discovered during a military operation, show a man from behind, whom Israel assures is Sinuar, walking through the tunnel behind what would be his children and one of his wives, who They are also guided by their brother.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said they had launched a tracking device to capture him “dead or alive.” Israel, which considers Sinuar to be the architect of the October 7 attack that sparked the war against Gaza, has believed throughout its air and ground operation over the enclave that the Hamas leader is hidden in the underground network built by the group. Islamist.
Sinuar is technically the ‘number two’ of the group, behind the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniye, now in self-exile in Qatar, but he is considered the person who governs both the political and military branches in the strip. Al Sinuar spent 23 years in an Israeli prison and benefited in 2011 from the exchange of 1,400 Palestinian prisoners for the soldier Gilat Shalit, captured in 2006. Later, as part of the Hamas security apparatus, he was in charge of the purges of Palestinians. collaborators with Israel.
Sinuar, who comes from the military branch, the al Qasam Brigades, had not been seen alive since the start of the war, although he has spoken out about it. In what is known as his only message broadcast since October 7, the leader of the Islamist group promised in December that “the al Qasam brigades will destroy the occupation army, they are on the way to crush it, they will not submit to the conditions of the occupation”.
