The killing of Hamas’s leader may allow Israel to claim victory and agree to a cease-fire, and new Hamas leadership could be more open to compromise. But neither side is likely to fold completely.

Troops appear to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for over a year.

Yahya Sinwar was a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war.

After a career in the shadows, spent in Israeli prisons and the internal security apparatus of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar emerged as the leader of the Palestinian group after helping ignite a full-blown w

The Israeli military confirms that Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

His understanding of the everyday hardships and brutal realities in Gaza was well-received by Gazans and made people feel at ease.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar remains unrepentant about the October 7 attacks a year ago, people in contact with him have said, despite unleashing an Israeli invasion that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, laid waste to his Gaza homeland and

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, who ordered the October 7 attack on Israel, might have been killed in an airstrike, said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), adding that its intelligence agencies are trying to verify the news. The October 7 attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis plunged the Middle East into chaos.

Death of Yahya Sinwar: A year later, after killing over 42,000 Palestinians, a vast majority of them women and children, the Israeli Defence Forces announced that it has killed its most wanted man in an operation in Gaza’s Rafah

On 17th of October, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced they were working to confirm the identity of one of three Hamas operatives killed in Gaza, who they suspect may be Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was the mastermind behind the October 7 terror attacks on Israel. The IDF announced they engaged and killed three Hamas terrorists in Gaza, potentially including Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar following an airstrike on a building housing the operatives. They soldiers found a body resembling Sinwar, although full identification is pending due to booby traps. The IDF and Shin Bet are using DNA, dental, and fingerprint tests to confirm his identity. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reaffirmed Israel’s commitment to pursuing terrorists, quoting scripture to emphasize their resolve.

Sinwar rose to the top position after the killing of previous leader Ismail Haniyeh in the explosion of a guesthouse in Tehran on July 30.

Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader.

Yahya Sinwar had been recently appointed to lead Hamas and has been said to be the mastermind of the attacks of Oct 7, 2023, which triggered an all-out war on Gaza.

UPDATE 11:45 a.m. Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was Israel’s most wanted man.

Chief architect of October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Sinwar became leader of Hamas following assassination of then-leader Ismail Haniyeh

Israel says it is looking into the possibility that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a military operation.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the 7 Oct 2023 attack that triggered the Gaza war, has been killed by Israeli forces in the Palestinian enclave, Israel has said.