Gaza Strip. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed. The Israel Defense Forces says a unit from its 828th Bislamach Brigade was patrolling Tal al-Sultan, an area of Rafah, when three fighters were identified and engaged by Israeli troops, all of whom were killed. At that point, there appeared to be nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the firefight, and soldiers returned to the scene only on Thursday morning. It was then, during an inspection of the dead, that it was discovered that one of the bodies bore a striking resemblance to the Hamas leader. However, the body remained in place due to suspected booby traps, and instead part of a finger was removed and sent to Israel for testing. His body was finally extracted and brought to Israel later that day, when the area was secured. The chief pathologist who performed the autopsy on Yahya Sinwar’s body told CNN that the Hamas leader was killed by a gunshot to the head. Dr. Chen Kugel, chief pathologist at the Israel National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, said that although Sinwar suffered other serious wounds, including those from a tank shell or a missile, he was confident that a bullet to the head killed the Hamas leader. A video on the social network X shows a drone flying through the open window of a largely destroyed building and approaching a man, his head covered, sitting in a chair on the first floor of a house covered in debris. The man, who appears injured, then throws what appears to be a stick at the drone, and the video cuts off.
