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Report: IDF Closing in on Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
Breitbart ^ | 08/09/2024 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 08/09/2024 12:41:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly closing in on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip, as he runs out of places to hide and as other senior members of the terrorist organization are eliminated.

The Jerusalem Post reported Friday:

Sinwar is almost alone at the top of Hamas. His close friends in the senior military ranks of the organization, as well as the senior officials, have been eliminated or have disappeared: Mohammad Deif, Rafa’a Salama, Ahmed Ghandour, Raad Saad, and Ayman Nofal.

The fact that Sinwar’s entire operational hub has disappeared makes it difficult for him, according to the IDF’s estimates, to move to hiding places, especially above ground.

According to the source, Sinwar’s movement area, like that of other senior officials in the organization, is getting smaller and smaller.

Sinwar is now the leader of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran last week.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hamas; idf; leader; sinwar
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Why make this public info??? Hope the Mossed gets the SOB
1 posted on 08/09/2024 12:41:58 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My question is, each time an Hamas leader is “neutralized” another one comes to take his place. Will this be a net positive for the Israelis or, as in the bombing campaign in Vietnam, will it fail to demoralize the population and make them even more determined to fight?


2 posted on 08/09/2024 12:47:36 PM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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Why make this public info??? Hope the Mossed gets the SOB

In no particular order:

1)- It isn't necessarily true

2) could just be the source making him or herself feel important (or they blabbed for money)

3) The source could be an Israeli leftist who doesn't want victory

4) it could be a canary trap aimed at ID'ing the 'source'

5) It could be a deliberate leak to try and spook Sinwar into leaving his hidey hole so the Israelis can get him out in the open and eliminate him
3 posted on 08/09/2024 12:48:53 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My question is “how many of the hostages are still alive”?


4 posted on 08/09/2024 12:49:35 PM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

get the f***er.


5 posted on 08/09/2024 12:51:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is Israel’s best chance to wipe Hamas off the map for good.....and t looks like they might.

They need to keep pushing


6 posted on 08/09/2024 1:03:33 PM PDT by suasponte137
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hopefully


7 posted on 08/09/2024 1:04:47 PM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good..Sinwar is a rat, with rats, they can run but eventually you find them, trap them and kill them


8 posted on 08/09/2024 1:13:20 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: suasponte137

Getting Haniyeh was the tip of the iceberg, off Sinwar and Hamas is pretty much gone


9 posted on 08/09/2024 1:13:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If it wasn’t for the biden’s puppeteer, the tunnels would have been flooded long ago.


10 posted on 08/09/2024 1:14:07 PM PDT by fso301
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My question is “how many of the hostages are still alive”?


We probably will never know.

Many of the hostages that are still alive have probably been moved out of Gaza via the tunnels leading into Egypt.

Israel now controls the Gaza -Egypt border so it will be very difficult for Hamas to get them back to Gaza for release.

It would be very problematic for Hamas and Egypt to admit that the Israeli hostages were trafficked through Egypt and have been held in Egypt or other Arab countries.

This is probably one of the reasons Egypt and the Biden Administration totally freaked out when Israel took control of the Philadelphia Corridor and shut down the cross border tunnels.

11 posted on 08/09/2024 1:15:18 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Signalman

Absolutely a positive. The giant turd was an architect of the Oct. 7 massacres. It’s like getting UBL.


12 posted on 08/09/2024 1:18:48 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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(The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly closing in on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip)

Oh the haters of Israel will REALLY want a “cease-fire” now.......

They gotta keep their terrorists going.


13 posted on 08/09/2024 1:21:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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5 is what I was thinking if for whatever reason their closing in on him is not true.

5) It could be a deliberate leak to try and spook Sinwar into leaving his hidey hole so the Israelis can get him out in the open and eliminate him


14 posted on 08/09/2024 1:27:04 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Signalman

The population that became demoralized about Viet Nam was the American people due to fake news press reports. The Vietnamese knew the only place they could win was in the press and at the negotiating table.


15 posted on 08/09/2024 1:37:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Signalman

A major contributor to North Vietnam’s willingness to continue was because they had people like Hanoi Jane and John Kerry cheering them on. They were ready to quit on more than one occasion.


16 posted on 08/09/2024 1:40:01 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All they have to do is find the largest concentration of women and children. He’ll be right in the middle of them.


17 posted on 08/09/2024 2:12:46 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hope he dies tired.


18 posted on 08/09/2024 2:19:52 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Signalman

Israel will have to patrol Gaza — and I mean patrol — for decades to come. In the Middle East there were no, repeat no, nations willing to accept Holy Land Muslims. That was true of Lebanon’s camps, the Islamic occupied part of the Holy Land and Gaza. Don’t believe me? Investigate and find out how many have removed to Egypt in the last ten years.


19 posted on 08/09/2024 4:03:46 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

And the answer is——NONE!


20 posted on 08/09/2024 4:48:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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