On May 13, the IDF dropped a large number of bombs on a tunnel hideout under a hospital in Gaza in order to target Sinwar.
By YONAH JEREMY BOB – TheJerusalemPost.com
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave final confirmation on Wednesday that Hamas chief Mohammed Sinwar was killed by an IDF airstrike on May 13.
Earlier in mid-May, Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there were rising indications that Sinwar was dead.
Katz had made his statement just as IDF sources told The Jerusalem Post that it still did not recognize foreign reports that Sinwar’s body had been found with around a dozen of his aides, including Sinwar’s likely successor, Rafah Brigade chief Mohammed Shabanah.
Sources had told the Post that the two top Hamas leaders were found together, making it overwhelmingly likely that both are dead.
Despite the restraint in officially declaring them dead for the last two weeks, IDF sources had already told the Post early on that they were very likely dead, and Katz had also previously hinted at the same in recent days.
On May 13, the IDF dropped a large number of bombs on a tunnel hideout under a hospital in Gaza to target Sinwar.