More and more details are known about the death of the “Butcher of San Yunis”. Jahja Sinwar was shot in the head and killed. However, only later did it become clear who the Israelis had captured.
More details about Jihia al-Shinwar’s final hours are coming to light after the previous Hamas leader was killed in the Gaza Strip. According to the forensic scientist in charge of the autopsy, the mastermind behind the massacre in Israel on October 7 last year was shot in the head. “The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head,” Chen Kugel, a senior pathologist at the National Center for Forensic Sciences in Tel Aviv, told an American television station. CNN.
Three Israeli soldiers were spotted moving from building to building in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Wednesday shortly before the shooting of the most wanted terrorist in the Middle East, according to The New York Times newspaper. Localities in Israel and the United States. After an Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in the firefight, one fled into a neighbor’s house.
The Israeli military later launched a drone into the building and found a hooded man covered in dust on a sofa, who threw a stick at the remote-controlled aircraft. Only later did I know that it was Chinwar. A sniper shot him in the head and an Israeli tank opened fire on the building “The New York Times”.
Fearing a booby trap, the troops did not advance into the house until sunrise the next day. There they eventually find a body that resembles Chinwar. “He had multiple injuries: a rocket wound on his right forearm, contusion wounds on his left leg and a lot of shrapnel on his chest. They caused serious injuries, but the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head,” said forensic scientist Kugal.
After Sinwar, Israeli soldiers also killed the Hamas leader’s bodyguard, Mahmoud Hamdan, the army said. Sinwar, the commander of a Hamas battalion in Rafah’s Tal al-Sultan district, died 200 meters from where he lost his life. Hamdan was also responsible for the rescue of six Israeli hostages who were murdered by his men in August.
A severed finger sign was confirmed
The pathologist explained that one of the deceased’s fingers had been cut off in order to identify him using DNA testing. “After the lab created a genetic profile, we compared it with the profile we had from the time Sinwar was a prisoner. So we were able to identify him based on his DNA.
The Islamist, known as the “Butcher of Khan Yunis” for his brutal handling of political opponents, was once sentenced to a long prison term for killing four suspected collaborators and two Israeli soldiers and spent more than 20 years in Israeli custody. In 2011, he was one of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held in Gaza.
The body is in a secret location
The media reported that Sinwar’s body is in a secret location in Israel. Citing Israeli diplomatic sources, CNN reported that his remains could be a “bargaining chip” in talks about freeing hostages from Hamas control. “If Hamas wants to trade his body for Israelis, dead or alive, so be it,” a person familiar with the matter was quoted as saying. The body should not be sent to Gaza without such an agreement. There is concern in Israel that Shinwar’s tomb, sealed by Israel, could become a pilgrimage site for his followers in the war-torn coastal region.
Hunt for Hamas Leader
After the bloody attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which Islamist terrorists killed more than 1,200 people and abducted another 250 to the Gaza Strip, Israel’s armed forces and secret services began hunting down Shinwar, the mastermind. But he didn’t make it easy for them. According to security experts, he spent a long time in an elaborate tunnel system under the Gaza Strip surrounded by hostages. Accordingly, he did without cell phones and computers, and only communicated with his fighters through messengers so as not to reveal his whereabouts.
After Israeli forces recovered the bodies of the six slain hostages from the tunnel in late August, they were able to trace Chinwar’s urine to the underground compound using DNA testing, according to a New York Times report. After that, the rope got tighter and tighter. The Secret Service has repeatedly observed masked men in the Tal al-Sultan district, accompanied by bodyguards – a sign that they are key Hamas figures.
But in the end there was luck. According to information obtained by The New York Times, the military patrol formed at the end of Sinwar was actually only in the area to gather more clues. He dealt one of the most significant blows against Hamas since the start of the Gaza war.
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