The Israeli army
released a video on Tuesday
in which, it claims,
the head of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinuar
, appears in a
tunnel
in the Palestinian territory.
The image dates from October 10,
three days after
the
terrorist group
's attack in southern Israel, which left more than a thousand dead.
Footage from a
surveillance camera discovered
during a military operation shows "Hamas leader and
mass murderer
Yahya Sinuar fleeing with
his children and one of his wives
, led by his brother Ibrahim Sinuar," said army spokesman Daniel Hagari. .
It is "the result of our tracking,
a tracking that will only end
when we have
captured him alive or dead
," he declared at a press conference.
The images show a young man leading a woman, three children and another man, identified by Israeli authorities as accused terrorist
Yahya Sinuar
, who
has not been seen since the attack
that sparked the military operation by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Israel showed the tunnel through which the Hamas leader escapes in Gaza.
AFP Photo
"This video or any other is not what really matters. What matters is the information we collect that will allow us
to find senior Hamas officials
and the hostages," added Hagari, without specifying
where the images were filmed
.
Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said
Sinuar is going "from hideout to hideout
," as Israeli forces advanced into the southern Gaza Strip and continued shelling Khan Yunis, his hometown.
Sinuar joined Hamas when the group was founded in 1987, the year the first Intifada, the uprising against Israel's alleged occupation of lands claimed by the Palestinians, broke out.
Israel accuses him of orchestrating
the bloody Hamas attack of October 7
, which broke out the war.
That day, the terrorist attack caused 1,160 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP report based on official figures.
Spotted: Yahya Sinwar running away and hiding in his underground terrorist tunnel network as Gazan civilians suffer above ground under the rule of Hamas terrorism.
There is no tunnel deep enough for him to hide in.
pic.twitter.com/KLjisBFq1f
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 13, 2024
In response, Israel launched an offensive that has left at least 28,473 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and minors, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas, which governs that Palestinian territory.
What is the underground hideout of Hamas leaders that was taken by Israeli forces like?
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also released
another video in which a soldier walks through a tunnel
that was used as a refuge by Hamas leaders, perpetrators of the attack on October 7 in the south of the country in the conflict-ridden Middle East. East.
With his face covered and a camera focused on him from the front, he follows his steps through the place and reveals
details of the tunnels forged by Hamas
.
Video
A soldier shows the bathrooms, kitchens, clothes on mattresses and a large amount of cash.
After a few steps, he opens the door to two
full bathrooms installed underground
, and then reaches a
kitchen
full of apparently non-perishable products,
cleaning supplies and utensils, and a stove
connected to gas.
On the other side of the narrow corridor that it runs through, it shows an area with
mattresses barely covered
with a sheet and military clothing thrown over them.
Meters later, an
old safe appears full of cash
inside transparent bags, which expand to the top of it.
Next to the cash, bottles of
perfume and deodorants
.
The discoveries of the Israeli forces occur within the framework of their advance on territory controlled by Hamas
in search of the leadership of the terrorist organization
, more than four months after the attack and the request of the UN and the United States for a truce and the accusations of genocide in Palestine by opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Israel.
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