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IDFIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that his military “removed” the Gaza Strip in Hamas, Mohammed Sinwar, one of his most wanted men and the brother of the late leader of the group Yahya Sinwar.
Mohammed Sinwar was reportedly the goal of A massive Israeli strike on the courtyard and the surrounding area of the European Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis on May 13thWhat the Israeli military said that Hamas destroyed “underground infrastructure”.
The Gaza civil protection authority led by Hamas said 28 people were killed. Hamas itself neither confirmed nor denied the death of Sinwar.
Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, was killed by Israeli troops last October.
In response to the unprecedented border attack, Israel started a military campaign in Gaza 600 days ago, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
Since then, at least 54,084 people have been killed in Gaza in Gaza, according to the Hamas-led Ministry of Health of the Territory.
The 49-year-old Mohammed Sinwar came to Hamas shortly after his foundation in the late 1980s and became a member of the group’s military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam brigades.
He climbed through the rows and was the commander of the Khan Younis Brigade in 2005.
It was assumed that he was one of the masters of a cross -border attack from 2006 in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was confiscated. SGT Shalit was released after five years to capture more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, including Yahya Sinwar.
Mohammed Sinwar was also near the late Military Head of Hamas in Mohammed Deif and was involved in planning the attack on October 7, 2023.
Netanyahu announced that during a special debate in the Israeli parliament on Tuesday, he was called dead by the opposition to treat what she described as “the complete failure of the war to achieve the goals of war: the return of all hostages and defeats by Hamas”.
In response to the criticism, the prime minister listed the successes of Israel.
“We actually changed the face of the Middle East in 600 days after the” revival war “,” he said. “We drove the terrorists from our territory, stepped in the Gaza Strip, removed tens of thousands of terrorists, and removed Mohammed Deif. [political leader Ismail] Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Sinwar. “
So far, Israeli officials have been cautious when they talked about Mohammed Sinwar’s fate.
The statement of the Israeli military on May 13 did not mention him and only said that he was “Hamas terrorists who worked in a command and control center that was embedded in an underground terrorist infrastructure under the European Hospital”. However, Israeli media reported at the time when he was the intended goal.
Five days later, the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz told the parliament that “all signs” of the Israeli secret service, although there was no official confirmation that was killed.
The European hospital has been out of operation since the attack two weeks ago.
CCTV film material shows children, women and men in the hospital courtyard, just before it is devoured by an explosion. As the smoke removes, a great crater forms.
Doctors said they had not received a warning from the Israeli authorities. The hospital was also not covered by Israeli evacuation orders, since the military resumed its offensive against Hamas on March 18 after the collapse of a two -month ceasefire.
The UN HEATH HEATHERS Volker Türk said that the murder of the civilian population was “as tragic and hideous”, and that Israel is obliged to spare international law to save their lives, even if it believed that the destruction of the underground structures offered a certain military advantage.
ReutersNetanyahu also spoke the edition of the 58 hostages from Hamas on Tuesday.
“I concentrate fully on the mission to bring all of our hostages back – both the living and the fallen,” he said. “According to the information we currently have, there are 20 hostages that are confirmed that they are alive. This is undisputed. There are also up to 38 other hostages, which are assumed that they have died.”
At the beginning of this month, the Prime Minister said that there were “uncertainty” about the state of three of the 24 hostages, which were previously assumed that they are alive in captivity.
Days later one of the living hostages, Israeli-American Edan Alexander, was freed by Hamas what the group said was a goodwill gesture for US President Donald TrumpHe tries to convey a new ceasefire and Geisel -Release deal.
Netanyahu also explained that in the past two days, Israel “had made a dramatic shift towards the full defeat of Hamas” by “taking control of the food distribution in the Gaza Strip”.
He referred to the controversial new aid distribution system of the US and Israeli humanitarian Gaza. The system uses US security companies and bypasses the UN, which says that it violates fundamental humanitarian principles.
The hosts and missing families who represent the families of many hostages welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister about Mohammed Sinwar, but said to him: “It is time to achieve a real national victory – one that also includes the achievement of all hostages and the restoration of Israeli society.”