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What was initially a routine patrolling by soldiers in a region of southern Gaza ended in killing of Israel's top enermy and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday. Intelligence services had been searching for Sinwar for months and had been gradually restricting the area where he could operate, the military said on Thursday, after dental records, fingerprints and DNA testing provided final confirmation of Sinwar's death. "The dozens of operations carried out by the IDF and the ISA over the last year, and in recent weeks in the area where he was eliminated, restricted Yahya Sinwar’s operational movement as he was pursued by the forces and led to his elimination," the Israeli military said in a statement.
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The troops that were patrolling saw three suspected militants moving between buildings and opened fire, leading to a gunfight during which Sinwar escaped into a ruined building. According to accounts in Israeli media, tank shells and a missile were also fired at the building. Read More: Israel releases footage showing Yahya Sinwar's last moments before he was killed, seen sitting alone in ruined apartment 'Throwing stick as last effort to save himself' The last moments before the militant killed were released by the Israeli military where Sinwar was seen sitting on a chair, his face covered in a scarf with his hand badly wounded.
The film shows him attempting to throw a stick at the drone, in a futile effort to knock it down. At this stage, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, Sinwar was only identified as a fighter, but troops entered and found him with a weapon, a flak jacket and 40,000 shekels ($10,731.63).
"He tried to escape and our forces eliminated him," he told reporters in a televised briefing. How Sinwar escaped Israel's intelligence services? In the last months of his life, Sinwar, the main architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that set off the war in Gaza, appears to have stopped using telephones and other communication equipment that would have allowed Israel's powerful intelligence services to track him down.
Israeli officials said they believed he was hiding in one of the vast network of tunnels that Hamas dug beneath Gaza over the past two decades, but as more and more have been uncovered by Israeli troops, even the tunnels were no guarantee of escaping capture. The head of Israel's military, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, said Israel's pursuit of Sinwar over the past year drove him "to act like a fugitive, causing him to change locations multiple times". Israeli officials, who knew Sinwar as a ruthless and committed enemy, were long concerned that he had surrounded himself with some of the 101 Israeli and foreign hostages still held in Gaza as a human shield to protect himself from Israeli attacks.
But no hostages were found nearby when he was finally trapped on Wednesday, although Hagari said samples of his DNA were located in a tunnel a few hundred metres from where six Israeli hostages were executed by Hamas at the end of August. (with Reuters inputs) (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel ).
