ISRAEL is claiming to have Hamas’ leader surrounded in a bunker after taking control of one of the terror group’s military strongholds today.
IDF forces have dubbed Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, a “dead man walking” as they close in around Gaza City.
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Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant said Hamas’s leader in Gaza was “hiding in his bunker … without contact with his associates”.
IDF forces are rapidly closing in on Gaza as fighter jets today struck a terror cell in the enclave’s north before sending in soldiers on foot.
It claimed a number of anti-tank missiles, launchers, other weapons and “various intelligence materials” were uncovered inside.
At least ten Hamas militants were also killed in the blast.
The IDF also said an aircraft also struck several Hamas militants who had barricaded themselves in a building near the al-Quds Hospital.
Gallant claimed Israeli troops are storming the terror group’s strongholds “from all directions, in perfect co-ordination with maritime and aerial forces.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Sinwar, 61, as acting like a “little Hitler in a bunker,” as he was suspected of hiding in a Hamas control centre beneath a Gaza Strip hospital.
Footage shows gun-wielding Israeli troops moving into the “terror nest” and searching buildings.
And Israel Defence Forces spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht compared him to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden for his role in the Hamas atrocities.
Lt Col Hecht said: “Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil. He is the mastermind behind this, like Bin Laden was [with the 9/11 US attacks].”
The Israelis urged Gazans to kill or hand over the bogeyman themselves as this would “hasten the end to the war”.
The founder of Hamas’s military wing and its intelligence service, Sinwar has been the leader of the terror group in Gaza since 2017.
As the IDF launched its hunt for him following last month’s killings by Hamas in Israel, it released an earlier video of him telling supporters: “From us here in Gaza they will never get anything but guns and fire. They will never get anything but death and killing.”
Born in a refugee camp, Sinwar was captured and sentenced to 426 years in prison in 1989 for the murder of two Israeli soldiers.
He was the most high-profile of more than 1,000 terror prisoners released in a 2011 swap deal to secure the release of one kidnapped Israeli soldier.
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