It is possible that the Hamas leader in Gaza was killed by Israel

Sinwar’s emergence in Gaza during the 2023 Sept. 7 attack as a reminder of a peaceful arrangement Israel and Hamas

Most Palestinians and Israelis believed that Sinwar had stayed mostly underground in some part of the tunnel network that has been a problem for the Israeli military inside Gaza.

He was appointed the leader of the entire group after Israel killed his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, in an explosion in Tehran in July. The Israeli military also said it had killed the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike in July. The Israeli military had earlier killed Hamas’ deputy political chief Salah Arouri in a bombing in Beirut in January.

An official with knowledge of the situation said that the militant were killed in a firefight in southern Gaza. The official said a body is being checked for a match with Sinwar’s DNA.

The military said there were no Israeli hostages in the area where three terrorists were killed and that they were operating in the area with caution.

Many Israelis worried that a pause in fighting would help Hamas fighters regroup, and leave more time for international pressure to mount against Israel resuming its military assault. Following a dispute over the kind of hostages Hamas offered to release, Israel renewed combat in Gaza.

Hamas and Israel, which do not speak directly to each other, reached an indirect arrangement known as “quiet for quiet.” Hamas agreed to cool hostilities and Israel agreed to ease Gaza’s high unemployment rate, granting coveted Israeli work permits to thousands of laborers from the territory.

David Meidan, the Israeli negotiator who, along with other officials, had approved Sinwar’s release from prison in 2011 during an exchange that saw Palestinian prisoners released in return for a single Israeli captive soldier, says Sinwar’s strategy with the Oct. 7, 2023, attack was similar.

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In response, Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 42,400 Palestinians and injured more than 99,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Israeli society and the country’s political and military elite were shocked when Hamas fighters returned to Gaza with at least 120 captives.

“I don’t know. In a recent interview with journalists, Hulata stated that she thought she had an understanding of Sinwar’s thinking.

Israel’s permits for workers from Gaza resumed, and surged to higher numbers, while fighting between Gaza and Israel ceased. The number of Israeli work permits granted to laborers in Gaza reached a record 8,000 before the war began.

Hamas had been encouraging violent protests along the Israeli border fence of the blockaded Gaza Strip during this period. He said it was a strategy he learned from his hunger strikes in Israeli prison, where he said Palestinian prisoners had protested better conditions from their Israeli jailers.

“Your presence for us is a big accomplishment and asset for our people and our cause,” he told visiting reporters at a 2018 press conference in Gaza City that lasted two hours.

In 2006, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas and held hostage in Gaza for five years. The man who guarded the captive soldier was none other than Sinwar’s own brother, Mohammed.

Mansour recalls that Sinwar had assembled a small team of confidants who would smuggle cellphones into prison, interrogate new prisoners about how they had been caught preparing an attack against Israel, and catch Palestinian inmates serving as informants for Israel.

Sinwar‘s death in an Israeli assault in Gaza fulfilled a promise made by Israeli leaders made last year, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who swore they would assassinate him in retribution for the wave of killings and hostage-taking that horrified Israel a year ago.

He was sentenced to four life terms in Israel in 1988 for playing a role in the killings of Israeli soldiers and four suspected Palestinian collaborators.

His important role in the cease-fire talks with Israel gave him significant power as he tried to outmaneuver Israel, and survive.