The leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israel on Wednesday night in the Gaza Strip. The organization confirmed Sinwar's assassination during confrontations alongside his fighters in the Tal Al-Sultan area of Rafah. Israeli authorities made the claim earlier on Thursday, which was then backed by an address from prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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00:00The leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Jaja Singwar, was killed by Israel
00:05on Wednesday night in the Gaza Strip.
00:08The organization confirmed Singwar's assassination during confrontations alongside his fighters
00:13in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah.
00:16Israeli authorities made the claim earlier on Thursday, which was then backed by an address
00:22from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:24The authorities informed that a force of the 828th Brigade, which operated in southern
00:30Gaza, identified and eliminated three fighters.
00:33Afterwards, DNA testing had to be used to positively identify the body.
00:39Singwar, who became the organization's head after the Zionist regime killed former leader
00:44Ismail Haniyeh during an attack to Iran in July, was allegedly the mastermind behind
00:50Hamas' al-Aqsa flood operation against Israel on October 7th, 2023.
01:01Let's provide some information on Jaja Singwar.
01:04He was born in the Cantonese refugee camp in southern Gaza in 1962.
01:09He left Israeli prisons after some 23 years there, to the Gaza Strip, loyal to the free
01:15people like all the leaders before him.
01:19He was murdered among his people wearing his favorite military uniform, carrying his
01:24rifle and facing the occupation forces in Rafah.
01:28Singwar became the head of Hamas after Haniyeh was killed in July in an Israeli attack on
01:34Iran.