While media outlets reported that the Israeli army is investigating the possibility that The Sinwar He may have been killed in a raid, but military sources denied that.
The Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, reported that the army said on Sunday that it “cannot confirm or deny reports” about Sinwar’s possible death.
According to the newspaper, no sources have indicated any specific type of assassination operation that the Israeli army recently carried out to kill Sinwar.
The Jerusalem Post indicated that there may be communication between Sinwar and members of the agitation Those involved in the stalled negotiations to stop the fighting and exchange hostages have been cut off.
In the same context, the Times of Israel newspaper said that Israel is investigating the possibility of the killing of the Hamas leader, “although it is highly unlikely.”
The newspaper reported that “the Internal Security Service in Israel (The Shin Bet) rejected the reports (about his death), and believes that Sinwar is alive.”
In response to these reports, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid wrote on the X platform that officials with direct knowledge told him that Israel has no intelligence indicating that Sinwar has been killed.
“It’s all hopes and speculation based on the fact that Sinwar has been isolated from the outside world in recent weeks,” Ravid quoted an Israeli official as saying.
Last December, several reports leaked that Sinwar had been killed, injured, or had fled the Gaza Strip, and other estimates indicated that his contact with Hamas members had been cut off.
But, according to The Times of Israel, it later emerged that he was in hiding, and that Israel was behind the reports as part of a “psychological war” to try to force Hamas fighters to surrender.
Israel assassinated Hamas’ most prominent leaders, including the head of the movement’s military wing. Mohammed Daif The commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade, Rafeh Salama, was killed in an airstrike on Gaza last July, and the deputy head of the movement’s political bureau, Saleh al-Arouri, was killed in a raid on Beirut last January.
The head of Hamas’ political bureau was also killed. Ismail Haniyeh In Tehran last July, in an attack attributed to Israel, although it has not yet claimed responsibility.
