In the images, you can see Yahya Sinwar alone in a ruined building in the Gaza Strip, sitting on a sofa, with his face and head covered in dust.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released drone footage on Thursday night showing the final moments of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader and mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, who was killed by the Israeli army in Rafah.
In the footage, available in the gallery above, Sinwar can be seen alone in a ruined building in the Gaza Strip, sitting on a sofa, with his face and head covered and covered in dust. Despite appearing to have a seriously injured arm, the Hamas leader still tried to throw a stick at a drone to protect himself.
When sharing the footage, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari explained that "Sinwar fled alone to one of the buildings" and the military decided to "use a drone to survey the area."
"Sinwar, who was wounded in the hand by gunfire, can be seen here with his face covered, in his final moments, throwing a stick at the drone," he said, as quoted by Israeli media.
On Thursday, Israel confirmed that it had killed the top Hamas leader and mastermind behind the October 7 attacks in Israel, who was the Palestinian Islamist group’s most wanted man in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Sinwar is said to have carefully planned the October 7 attacks together with the head of the al-Qasam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, Mohamed Deif, who was killed in an Israeli strike last June in Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Born in a refugee camp in Khan Yunis, a town in southern Gaza, Sinwar was elected leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2017 after establishing a reputation as a staunch enemy of Israel, and on August 6 – following the assassination in Tehran of then-head of the political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh – he was chosen to occupy the Islamist group’s top position in the organization.
Sinwar represented the hardest and most belligerent line of the group and is considered by Israel to be the mastermind behind the October 7 attacks on Israeli territory, in which around 1,200 people died and another 250 were kidnapped, making him Israel's most wanted man.
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