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Israeli forces are closing in on the location of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, Israel's military has suggested, as it moves into the "third phase" of ground operations in the devastated Gaza Strip. The Chief of the Israel Defense Forces' General Staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, was quoted by The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday as saying that the IDF has encircled southern Gaza and Khan Younis, where multiple top officials have said Sinwar is hiding, though the outlet said there was no precise timeline for capturing or killing him. "[Yahya] Sinwar is the address," Halevi said. Israeli forces moving through the...

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBC Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBCIsrael’s longest-running political satire program, Eretz Nehederet, has tackled issues regarding the war with what the director calls an "old Jewish secret: laughing in the face of death." Israeli political satire show Eretz Nehederet, meaning "wonderful country," satirized the BBC and Western media coverage of Israel’s Operation Swords of Iron on Tuesday in a skit featuring a sympathetic mock “interview” with Yahya Sinwar – Hamas’s lead man in Gaza. The interview begins with the actress portraying the BBC anchor announcing an exclusive interview with Sinwar...

Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an @AP and @CNN contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter. Quote Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: 22h 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Important expose by @honestreporting: Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it.*

The Israeli military is confident that Hamas leader Yehiya Sinwar, the alleged architect of the Oct. 7 attacks, is hiding in a labyrinthine network of tunnels beneath Southern Gaza. But he is surrounded by a human shield of hostages intended to deter an operation to capture or kill him, frustrating Israel’s efforts to dismantle the terrorist organization and bring the more than four-months-long war to a close….

Saudi media reports that Israel has information and assessments that indicate that Hamas leaders have escaped into Egypt. The potential fugitives include both Yahya Sinwar and his brother Mohammed as well as other senior figures in the organization. The fugitives are thought to have escaped along with other Hamas officials through tunnels between Rafah and Sinai. Along with the fear that top Hamas officials have escaped Israeli forces, there is a growing concern that they have taken Israeli hostages... video

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A satirical sketch created by "Eretz Nehederet". "Eretz Nehederet" ("A Wonderful Country) is a satirical television show by the Israeli Broadcaster Keshet.

Multiple sources say Israel has identified Yahya Sinwar’s hiding place, but his use of Israeli human shields is keeping military from attacking Israel appears to know the exact location of Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar, the ruler of the Gaza Strip and the mastermind of the October 7 terror attacks, according to multiple reports. However, Sinwar has surrounded himself with a large number of living Israeli hostages, which is preventing the Israel Defense Forces from carrying out a strike on him, Israel Hayom reported Monday. It followed a similar statement on Kan public radio on Sunday by former Military Intelligence...

The Hamas minister of communications has told his Shabak interrogators that Gazan leader Yahya Sinwar is hugely unpopular now in the coastal enclave after two months of war in which Israel has leveled much of its northern region and is moving steadily south in its mission to destroy the terrorist organization. Israel’s intelligence agency released part of its grilling of Yousef al-Mansi Sunday. In the translated portions, al-Mansi notes that of those he met over the last two months, “People are saying ‘Sinwar and his group have destroyed us. We have to be rid of them.” According to al-Mansi, “Everyone...

The security establishment is bracing for imminent military achievements against Hamas, which are expected to weaken the grip of both Sinwar and Mohammed Deif on their ground forces. A senior security official, in a confidential briefing, shared insights on the escalated efforts to locate Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas. The official revealed, "There is a significant intelligence effort underway to track down Sinwar," emphasizing his misjudgment of the IDF's strength and his shock at recent military actions in Shifa. Security forces are now focusing on the southern Gaza Strip, with an expectation that operations in areas like Khan Yunis...

WARNING: This story contains graphic details Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in an Israeli prison in the Negev desert. He describes Sinwar, who conversed in fluent Hebrew, as a curious but cunning Islamist, bent upon the destruction of the state of Israel. "He is not somebody who's thinking about negotiations, a two-state solution — that's not Sinwar," said Yaari, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times between 1993 and 2001. "He was very clear that the state of Israel should be...

One of the most accurate aspects about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is the use of the word Nazi to describe the terrorist enemy. No other label or historical parallel could capture the chilling ferocious madness – but not scope – of Palestinian butchery of Israelis. The Nazi vilification epithet has now become conventional Israeli discourse in public and media circles with the vivid revelation – in words and photos – of Palestinian savagery and barbarism by Hamas on October 7. Hamas terrorists, without an ounce of inhibition or remorse, shot youth in cold blood at the music festival...

Israeli comedians have mocked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) once again for its pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias in a sketch with a satirical interview of Gaza-based Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar. Last month, the comedy show, Eretz Nehederet (“wonderful land”) mocked the BBC for its sensational reporting of “fake news” about an alleged Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian hospital. An errant rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists had caused the blast. On Tuesday night, the comedians were back for more. The interview sees a BBC anchor describing the October 7 terror attack as an incident in which Hamas “peacefully invaded” Israel. Sinwar...

A senior Hamas commander told the UK's Daily Mail that Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar had "destroyed" the lower levels of the terrorist movement by ordering the October 7 attack, according to a report by the British newspaper on Sunday. The commander, calling himself Abu Mohammed, told the newspaper in an interview over Telegram that originally the plan was to kidnap a few Israeli soldiers, but the orders were changed at the last minute by Hamas military leaders to conduct the massacre which ended up taking place on that tragic Saturday morning a month ago. "Our reason to...

The 30th day of the war: at least one wounded by anti-tank fire on a vehicle near the Lebanese border Netanyahu: "Sinwar doesn't care about his people and is behaving like a little Hitler in a bunker" • The IDF spokesman revealed: Hamas launched rockets only 75 meters away from a hospital in Gaza • The IDF located dozens of guns, explosive drones and ammunition in the Gaza Strip • Iron Dome intercepted a Tab in the territory of Lebanon • Publication was allowed: the Nahal patrol fighter, Yonatan Maimon, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip •...

Israeli troops on Saturday were hunting a Hamas commander described as Palestine's Osama bin Laden, vowing to find him wherever he was hiding and insisting his days were numbered. Yahya Sinwar, 60, is the current head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He has been arrested by Israel multiple times and spent 24 years in Israeli prisons: he was freed in 2011, as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Sinwar is being held responsible for the murder of 1,300 Israelis in the October 7 attack. The U.S. death toll rose to 29 on Saturday,...

Israeli security forces caught the two terrorists who carried out a deadly attack in Elad, four days after they went on a rampage in the city.Israel Police, Shin Bet and IDF capturing the two terrorists who carried out an attack in Elad on May 5 that left three dead (credit: Israel Police, Shin Bet, IDF). IDF forces, Shin Bet officers and police caught the two suspects 19-year-old As'sad al-Rifai and 20-year-old Emad Subhi Abu Shqeir, both from Rumana in the Jenin area of the West Bank, alive in a forested area close to Elad near Park Nahshonim. IDF has confirmed...

The child’s father was a member of Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades

Testimony in the trial of Chicago resident Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar of Northern Virginia, continued yesterday. FBI Agents gave testimony focusing on items found in Ashqar's home during a search of his Oxford Mississippi residence on December 26, 1993, in addition to wiretaps of his phone and fax lines. Special Agent Bradley Benabidez testified that the FBI acquired over 2400 hours of audio during the year that they maintained a wiretap. Benabidez further described the December 1993 search of Ashqar’s home where a team of agents from the FBI photographed over 1600 documents. A few of those documents which...