IDF
A drone slips by means of a glassless window of the second ground of a battle-scarred constructing.
By the mud cloud whipped up by its propellers, its IDF operators spied a lone man, his face coated, sitting hunched on an armchair.
It’s an injured Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief and the mastermind of the Oct 7 bloodbath, clutching a stick in his left hand.
Brandishing his makeshift weapon on the drone, Sinwar limply tosses it in the direction of the hovering system, as if he was resigned to destiny that he was about to die.
Moments later an Israeli Merkeva tank fired on the mysterious determine, its troopers unaware it was Sinwar, Israel’s most wanted man.
He was one in every of three terrorist assailants noticed darting between buildings in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighbourhood.
Two pressed forward, as in the event that they have been clearing a path for the third man following from behind.
A tank opened hearth, forcing the trio to separate up.
One clambered as much as the second ground of a constructing to hunt refuge from his hunters.
Physique discovered with Mentos mints
Israeli troopers tried to enter the construction, however withdrew after the lone terrorist hurled two grenades of their route.
That was once they despatched the drone to look the constructing, earlier than opening hearth on it once more.
It was not till the constructing was searched once more by IDF troops that they found the person with a coated face and injured arm was the chief of Hamas.
Sinwar’s lifeless, rubble-covered corpse was discovered with a number of Mentos mints, weapons, money and faux identification playing cards.
It was recovered and brought again to Israel for DNA and dental exams to substantiate that Israel had received its man.
The IDF had been looking the person who planned the Oct 7 terror attack for over a 12 months.
He was believed to have been hiding in Hamas’s tunnel network deep below Gaza.
Daniel Hagari, the IDF’s spokesman, mentioned Sinwar was in all probability making an attempt “to flee to the north, to safer areas” whereas Israeli troops closed in on him.
