Yahya Sinwar ‘suspected DEAD’ as IDF probes claims elusive Hamas leader dubbed ‘Gaza’s Bin Laden’ has been assassinated
ISRAEL are investigating claims they may have assassinated elusive Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an airstrike.
Gaza’s Bin Laden, 61, has been Israel’s main target ever since he masterminded the horrific October 7 massacre with fresh reports saying he might have finally been eliminated.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has vowed to destroy the terror kingpin with him escaping from their clutches for months.
An IDF statement earlier today announced their potential mammoth scalp.
They said: “During an activity by IDF fighters in the Gaza Strip, three terrorists were killed.
“The IDF and Shin Bet are investigating the possibility that one of the terrorists is Yahya Sinwar.
“At this stage, the identity of the terrorists cannot be confirmed.”
Graphic photos are being widely shared online which appear to show Sinwar’s dead body underneath rubble.
He has a catastrophic head wound and what appears to be a blown up leg.
The body in the alleged images appears to have the same mole next to Sinwar’s left eye as well as similar earlobes and teeth.
Israeli officials have taken the body to a laboratory so DNA testing can be done to confirm the corpse’s identity, reports the New York Times.
Sinwar has been the head of Hamas in Gaza since 2017 but was recently bumped up to chief after the suspected Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh.
Last man standing Sinwar spent half of his adult life in Israeli prisons, has a reputation as a ruthless leader and is now the most powerful target left on Israel’s kill list.
The terror boss is believed to have been in hiding in tunnels under the city to evade the IDF, transport weapons and even hold hostages.
Last month, the US military even ramped up the hunt for the Hamas boss.
They shipped in radar to help troops in Gaza trace the kingpin’s tunnel lair.
It comes as Sinwar’s loyal right hand man Rawhi Mushtaha was wiped out in a bunker blitz assassination in Gaza, according to Israel.
The IDF said Mushtaha was one of the most senior members of Hamas but was taken out after a series of airstrikes back in July.
He was designated as a global terrorist by the US in 2015.
Inside the twisted life of Yahya Sinwar
By Nick Parker, Foreign Editor
HIS life was saved twice by Israel – but the monster dubbed “The Hamas Bin Laden” repaid his sworn enemy by masterminding the October 7 horror.
Yahya Sinwar, 61, spent 22 years in an Israeli prison for terrorist murder and kidnap plots and spent every second honing his burning hatred for his captors.
His astonishing rise to the top of the Hamas terror tree came despite being sentenced to four life sentences in 1989 for planning the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers and the murder of four Palestinians he suspected of working with Israel.
The bearded beast’s life was first saved when he was cured of cancer by an operation in a prison.
Then in 2011 he was freed, among 1,026 others, in a prisoner exchange for a single Israeli soldier in a deal that has been damned by his thousands of victims ever since.
Sinwar taught himself Hebrew and became fluent during his multiple stints as a caged man.
He began reading and studying every Israeli newspaper to probe the weak spots in his enemy’s armour.
The terror master’s deep knowledge of what makes Israelis tick led him to realise the power of the hostage-taking tactic now traumatising the strife-torn Jewish nation.
Yet despite his blood lust and bravado, the Hamas commander “cried like a baby” when he learned he had cancer, his jailer Lieutenant Betty Lahat has revealed.