{"id":15508,"date":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/israel-releases-video-purportedly-showing-hamas-leader-sinwar-in-tunnel-under-khan-younis\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","slug":"israel-releases-video-purportedly-showing-hamas-leader-sinwar-in-tunnel-under-khan-younis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/israel-releases-video-purportedly-showing-hamas-leader-sinwar-in-tunnel-under-khan-younis\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel releases video purportedly showing Hamas leader Sinwar in tunnel under Khan Younis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar inside a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, with his wife, children and his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. <\/p>\n

Israel\u00a0<\/strong>has publicly\u00a0accused\u00a0Sinwar\u00a0of being\u00a0the \u201cmastermind\u201d behind Hamas\u2019 terror attack\u00a0against Israel\u00a0on October 7\u00a0\u2013\u00a0though experts say he is likely one of several \u2013 making him one of the key targets of its war in Gaza. <\/p>\n

Unveiling the video at his daily press conference,\u00a0Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel\u00a0Hagari said the footage had been captured on a Hamas CCTV camera on October 10 and obtained by the IDF in recent days. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how he escaped with his family underground in a tunnel to one of the safe accommodation complexes he had built in advance,\u201d Hagari continued. <\/p>\n

Hagari added that the video was a \u201cresult of our hunt\u201d for Sinwar and that \u201cthe hunt will not stop until he is captured, dead or alive. We are determined to capture him. We will capture him.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sinwar has been described as Israel\u2019s most-wanted man in Gaza. The Israeli military has declared him a \u201cdead man walking,\u201d nicknaming him in one profile as \u201cthe Butcher from Khan Younis\u201d for his alleged role in planning the October 7 attack. <\/p>\n

In December, the IDF surrounded Sinwar\u2019s house but did not find him, saying then that he was believed to be hiding underground. An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said subsequently that it was \u201conly a matter of time before we get him.\u201d <\/p>\n

However, Sinwar has remained elusive, despite an intensive Israeli assault on Khan Younis, his hometown. <\/p>\n

On February 6, the IDF said it was still pursuing Sinwar\u2019s whereabouts \u2013 and those of other leaders of the militant group in Gaza, with Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfuss, the commander of the IDF\u2019s 98th Division, saying he was confident his troops would \u201cget them.\u201d At the time, he did not respond when asked whether he could say with confidence that Sinwar was still in Gaza. <\/p>\n

The IDF also released a second video which they said showed Israeli forces in a section of the Hamas tunnels where they believe Sinwar was hiding. <\/p>\n

In the video, a soldier whose face is blurred says that they are at the \u201cmain hiding place\u201d of Sinwar and claims that the Hamas leader was there in \u201crecent times.\u201d The video also shows a bathroom, a kitchen and bedrooms, and the soldier says troops also found \u201cmillions of shekels and dollars in the safe and other funds that are scattered here outside.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThey fled when they heard that the IDF was approaching them. They knew we were coming so they fled,\u201d the soldier says in the video. <\/p>\n

Longtime Hamas figure<\/h2>\n

A longtime figure in the Islamist Palestinian group, Sinwar was responsible for assembling Hamas\u2019 military wing before forming important new ties with regional Arab powers as the group\u2019s civilian and political leader. <\/p>\n

He was elected to\u00a0Hamas\u2019 main\u00a0decision-making body, the Politburo, in 2017\u00a0as the political leader of Hamas in Gaza branch. However,\u00a0he has since\u00a0become\u00a0the Politburo\u2019s de facto leader, according to\u00a0research by the European Council on Foreign Relations\u00a0(ECFR). <\/p>\n

He has been designated a global terrorist by the US Department of State since 2015, and has been recently sanctioned by the United Kingdom and France. <\/p>\n

The IDF have intensified attacks on central and southern Gaza in recent weeks, including in Khan Younis \u2013 an area to which the Israeli military had previously urged large numbers of civilians to flee in the early days of the war, when northern Gaza was the focus of Israel\u2019s operations. <\/p>\n

The Israeli military has long claimed Khan Younis is a major Hamas stronghold, alleging that a tunnel network underneath civilian buildings in the city was likely where Hamas planned the October 7 attacks. <\/p>\n

Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza after the Hamas attack on October 7, in which more than 1,200 people were killed and over 240 taken hostage. Netanyahu has previously said the campaign is needed to \u201cdestroy Hamas\u2019 capabilities.\u201d <\/p>\n

Since then, Israel\u2019s bombardment and besiegement of the enclave has razed entire neighborhoods, diminished critical supplies and left some 2.2 million Palestinians exposed to high levels of acute food insecurity or worse, dehydration and deadly disease. <\/p>\n

At least 1.7 million people have been forcibly displaced, according to the UN\u2019s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Israeli attacks on the enclave have killed at least 28,340 people and injured at least 67,984, according to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-run Gaza. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n\n

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Israeli military released a video that purportedly shows the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar inside a tunnel below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, with his wife, children and his brother Ibrahim Sinwar. Israel\u00a0has publicly\u00a0accused\u00a0Sinwar\u00a0of being\u00a0the \u201cmastermind\u201d behind Hamas\u2019 terror attack\u00a0against Israel\u00a0on October 7\u00a0\u2013\u00a0though experts say he is likely one of several \u2013 making <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}