Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar hid in the identical tunnel the place Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, others had been murdered
Murderous Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar hid in the identical Gaza tunnel the place Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin and 5 others had been discovered brutally murdered — earlier than the Oct. 7 mastermind tried working away one final time and was lastly being assassinated Thursday, in accordance with experiences.
Sinwar’s DNA was detected a number of weeks in the past in an underground room contained in the tunnel complicated in Rafah — near the place the hostages had been executed by their terrorist captors in late August, the Occasions of Israel reported.
Sources advised Channel 12 that Sinwar at one level had been hiding with the six hostages, though it was unclear precisely when, or how lengthy, Sinwar was mendacity low within the tunnel complicated.
Israeli authorities are investigating whether or not the hostages had been shot useless to assist the fear chief escape and evade seize, the outlet stated.
The our bodies of Goldberg-Polin and his fellow hostages — Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Almog Sarusi — had been found within the passageway on Aug. 31, roughly two days after they had been murdered.
“We don’t know if he pulled the set off, or ordered their deaths,” Gat’s cousin, Gil Dickmann, advised a press convention.
“It’s devastating to us and exhibits how shut we had been to getting them out.”
“We don’t know for a way lengthy they had been held collectively or with Sinwar or the conversations they had been having. Now all six are gone and so is Sinwar,” Dickmann added.
The main points emerged after Sinwar, who had managed to elude Israeli forces for years, was worn out in a routine floor operation in southern Gaza on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Sinwar — the architect of the one deadliest assault on Jews for the reason that Holocaust — “ran away in concern from our troopers” previous to being assassinated.
“He advised you he was a lion, however in actuality, he was hiding in a darkish den — and he was killed when he fled in a panic from our troopers,” Netanyahu stated Thursday in a televised tackle as he hailed Sinwar’s loss of life.
Within the wake of his assassination, family of the slain six hostages urged the Israeli authorities and different world leaders to leverage his demise to barter the discharge of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas.
“When the six had been murdered, we stated we don’t know who murdered them and don’t care about revenge, we care solely about bringing again the 101 hostages,” Dickmann stated.
