A security source estimates Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is running out of hideouts.
According to security sources, Sinwar’s movement area, like other senior Hamas leaders, is shrinking day by day.
A security source who spoke to the Jerusalem Post estimates Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is running out of hideouts.
Friday’s operation in Khan Yunis, as well as around the Gaza Strip and Rafah, may advance the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) to their primary goal: the elimination of senior Hamas leadership.
Sinwar is almost alone at the top of Hamas leadership as the likes of Mohammad Deif, Rafa’a Salama, Ahmed Ghandour, Raad Saad, and Ayman Nofal have either been eliminated or disappeared.
According to Arab media, the man closest to Sinwar, the minister in the Hamas government and his right-hand man, Rawhi Mushtaha, was also killed along with Sameh al-Siraj and three military commanders from the al-Qassam Brigades who accompanied them: Abdul Hadi Siam, Sami Odeh, and Muhammad Hadid.
Mushtaha, one of Hamas’s senior members, is considered to be among the closest to the leader and is the figure that Sinwar relies on the most, both in the military and the political management of the organization.
Yahya Sinwar’s appointment as the new political head of Hamas came immediately after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh by Israeli forces in Tehran last week.
His appointment on Tuesday follows a consensus within Hamas’s leadership and Shura Council, underscoring the movement’s support for Sinwar, one of the most wanted men by Israel, which accuses him of being the mastermind behind the 7 October attacks.
