Hamas leader ‘may have been killed’, Israel’s army says

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
Yahya Sinwar has been credited as the architect of the deadly October 7 attack on Israel (Picture: Getty)

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar – the architect of the October 7 raid on Israel, in which 1,200 people were massacred – has reportedly been killed in Gaza.

The Israeli military said it was ‘checking the possibility’ that it has killed Sinwar inan attack on three militants today.

‘At this stage, their cannot be confirmed,’ it said in a statement.

Sinwar was chosen as the group’s top leader following the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh in July in an Israeli strike in the Iranian capital Tehran.

He was Israel’s most wanted man and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously called him a ‘dead man walking’.

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