Israel has received the first images of the Hamas leader in Gaza. Yahya Sinwar, since the start of the war in Gaza, according to Israeli news channel 12. They date from October 10, three days after the attack on Israeli soil that left nearly 1,200 people dead and another 253 captured. An unprecedented attack that had been planned for months by Sinwar himself and other senior officials of the Palestinian Islamist organization in the Gaza Strip.
Sinwar can be seen in the video, which was recorded in the last few hours by one of the surveillance cameras set up in the tunnels “healthy and whole” accompanied by his wife and “two or three” of his children in the depths of Khan Yunis, always according to Channel 12. The Israeli army, which is analyzing the files in collaboration with the Shin Bet, is considering publishing the images for about a minute , reports the Israeli press.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has already received information about other senior Hamas officials in its operation in Gaza. In December, News Channel 12 aired two unpublished photos of Mohamed Deifthe mysterious commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the execution arm of the October 7 attack.
“It’s an indication of how close we are, but it’s not enough,” he explained. Doron Avital, commander of the Israeli army’s special forces, alluding to the images of Sinwar on the i24 News television channel. “We have to put him in a position where he is forced to give in to an agreement.”
Israel has not yet found the exact whereabouts of the Hamas leader in Gaza, despite assuring him in early January, but it has been leaked to the media that he is the mastermind of the October 7 attack “Fly like a mouse from cave to cave”. A circumstance that, according to the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, would have prevented him in recent weeks from contacting the Hamas leadership outside the punished Gaza Strip, where the death toll is rising to 28,000. For this reason, according to Israeli media, he has always not participated in the drafting of the latest ceasefire proposal that the Palestinian Islamist organization sent to Israel and which is still on the table.