The Al Jazeera news network released previously unseen footage on Friday that allegedly shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at different points during the war in the Gaza Strip.
In one of the images published in the report, Sinwar is seen walking across a battlefield, wearing a military vest and covering his body with a blanket to prevent identification from a distance.
The footage shows the Hebrew word “north” spray-painted on the wall where Sinwar briefly hid, indicating that Israel Defense Forces soldiers had been operating in the house before the terrorist leader arrived.
Another scene shows Sinwar wearing a polo shirt, walking through a residential apartment and, at one point, kneeling on the floor with another man, pointing to a map spread out in front of them.
In the report, the Qatari channel also aired what it said was Sinwar’s signed order to launch the terror group’s attack on October 7, 2023, at 6:30 a.m.
That massacre triggered more than 15 months of war in Gaza, with some 3,000 Hamas terrorists invading Israel by land, air and sea, killing an estimated 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, mostly civilians, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Israel has accused Al Jazeera of cooperating closely with Hamas, claiming that its reporters in Gaza are operatives for Palestinian terror groups.
In October, the Israel Defense Forces released documents seized in Gaza that it said proved direct communication and cooperation between the Qatari network and Hamas, as well as documents showing that six active Al Jazeera reporters were members of terror groups.
The broadcaster has vehemently denied these allegations and accused Israel of systematically targeting its employees in the Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera is banned from broadcasting from Israel and was also recently suspended by the Palestinian Authority over the Qatar-based network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s recent crackdown on terrorist groups in the Judea-Samaria.
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Meanwhile, the owner of the house where IDF forces allegedly killed Sinwar said on Friday that his destroyed apartment in Rafah has become a morbid tourist attraction for admirers of the terrorist leader since a fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday.
Ashraf Abu Taha said that when he returned to the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah late on the night of October 17, he found the ruins of his home crowded with journalists and residents trying to see the chair where Israeli drone footage showed Sinwar sitting in his final moments.
The chair where he died has become a Palestinian nationalist symbol, Abu Taha suggested.
He and his son placed the seat and a vest they say belonged to Sinwar on the ruins of their home.
Also on Friday, Hamas acknowledged that an Israeli airstrike last summer had killed Rawhi Mushtaha, Gaza’s de facto prime minister, along with another senior official.
The Israel Defense Forces announced in October 2024 that Mushtaha had been killed in an airstrike on a tunnel in northern Gaza three months earlier, along with other Hamas officials.
Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas and recover the hostages taken on October 7, 2023, has involved targeting several Hamas leaders, including military wing chief Muhammad Deif in an airstrike in Gaza and political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a bombing in Tehran, both in July last year.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry says more than 46,000 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the conflict, though the toll cannot be verified and does not distinguish between civilians and fighters.
Israel says it killed about 20,000 fighters in battle through January and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel as of October 7.
Israel says it seeks to minimize civilian casualties and emphasizes that Hamas uses Gazan civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Ninety-one of the 251 hostages seized by Hamas on October 7 are believed to still be in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed killed by the IDF.
Hamas is scheduled to release four female soldiers it held for 477 days on Saturday as part of the first stage of a ceasefire hostage agreement.
Published in 01/25/2025 04h43
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