As of: February 22, 2024, 8:15 a.m
By: Sophia Lother
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Yahia al-Sinwar, head of the terrorist organization Hamas, attends a rally marking Al-Quds Day in 2023.
(Archive photo) © Mohammed Talatene/dpa
What is the health of the Hamas leader?
Current media reports speculate that Yahia Sinwar may be ill.
Gaza - Hamas leader Yahia Sinwar is one of the Israeli military's top targets as the suspected mastermind of the October 7 attacks.
Apparently that's not Sinwar's only problem.
The Israeli TV station
Channel 12
(
N12)
cites sources who diagnose the Hamas leader as being in extremely poor health.
In its report, the broadcaster relies on statements from officials in an “Arab country close to Hamas.”
Which country exactly is meant by this remains unclear.
According to the news channel, those officials are said to have put pressure on Hamas to call for a ceasefire and end the war.
In response, Hamas leaders reported to officials that there was no contact with Sinwar and that he was “suffering from pneumonia, which was becoming complicated.”
Is Hamas leader Sinwar sick?
Unnamed officials say he is in poor health
In addition to the state of health of the 60-year-old Hamas leader,
the general situation of the Hamas terrorists was also discussed, according to
N12 .
Accordingly, they complained: “Our situation is bad, there is a lack of ammunition and the collapse of military structures.” Other media, such as the
Jerusalem Post,
also report on Sinwar's possible health problems.
The rumors about the supposedly ill Hamas leader emerged in a similar period to the reports that discussed Sinwar's disappearance.
The Israeli broadcaster Kan
reported
on February 8th that communication between the leader and the other high-ranking members of the terrorist organization had broken down.
Speculations then circulated that Sinwar had now fled to Egypt through tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip, as an Israeli security official
reported to the Saudi newspaper
Elaph
.
Rumors surrounding Hamas leader Sinwar's health and disappearance
It is not the first time that the Hamas leader's health has been discussed.
A doctor from Israel appeared on Israel's
Channel 12
to report that he had saved Sinwar's life in prison in 2004.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting continues across the Gaza Strip between the Israeli army and the radical Islamic group Hamas.
Eyewitnesses told the
AFP
news agency on Wednesday of fighting in Khan Yunis in the south and in Seitun and Shejaiya, two neighborhoods of the city of Gaza in the north.