The Hamas terrorist group announced the death of its military chief in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Sinwar, 49, on Aug. 30, months after Israel declared him dead in May.
No details of his death were provided by the terrorist group, but pictures of Sinwar were published along with those of other deceased group leaders. Hamas described them as “martyrs.”
Sinwar was the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, one of the men who planned Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The older brother was killed by Israeli forces in 2024, which allowed Mohammed Sinwar to rise in power.
Mohammed Sinwar’s death leaves Izz al-Din Haddad in charge of Hamas’s armed forces in the region. Haddad currently oversees operations in the northern Gaza Strip.
Sinwar’s death was first announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, on May 28. Sinwar was said to have been eliminated during an Israeli strike in the Gazan city of Khan Younis.
The Jewish state, Netanyahu said in his address, had “eliminated Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif, Yahya Sinwar, and Mohammed Sinwar.”
“In the last two days, we’ve been executing a dramatic plan toward the complete defeat of Hamas,” he said. “We’re taking control of their food distribution and money machine. This is what destroys their governing capabilities. That’s what we promised.”
Israel has continued to announce the deaths of not only Hamas leaders, but also leaders of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
On Aug. 29, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had killed Hezbollah leader Ahmad Naeem Maatouk near Sir El Gharbiyeh in southern Lebanon.
“The terrorist held the position of a battalion staff commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, and during the war, he advanced numerous terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF said in a statement.
The day before that, the IDF launched a strike on a facility that intelligence found was hosting dozens of senior officials of Yemen’s Houthi-led government, including Prime Minister Ahmed Al-Rahawi.
“At the facility were senior officials responsible for the use of force, the military buildup of the Houthi terror regime, and the advancement of terror actions against Israel, along with other key Senior Houthi officials,” the IDF said in a statement issued on Aug. 30.
“The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat posed to Israeli civilians, just as it operates and will continue to operate in the Gaza Strip and all additional arenas.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
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